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Tickets and General Festival Info ...... 4 Special Programs–Making Waves ...... 13 The Documentary Media Society ...... 5 Special Programs–The Philosophers’ Café ...... 14 Acknowledgements ...... 6 Youth Programs ...... 15 Greetings from our Funders ...... 8 Bright Leaves by David Shields ...... 16 Welcome from DOXA ...... 10 The Spirit of Greenham by Astra Taylor ...... 18 Awards ...... 11 In the Third Place by Mark Kingwell ...... 20 Special Programs–Justice Forum ...... 12 Festival Schedule ...... 42
Screenings
Opening Night: Bear 71 ...... 23 The Lifeguard ...... 82 Closing Night: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ...... 25 The Light Bulb Conspiracy ...... 81 5 Broken Cameras ...... 79 LoveMEATender ...... 59 78 Days ...... 77 Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present ...... 65 A Fierce Green Fire ...... 37 Meanwhile in Mamelodi ...... 41 Abendland ...... 77 The Miners’ Hymns ...... 65 All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert ...... 29 Mostar Round-Trip ...... 31 An Encounter with Simone Weil ...... 67 Nuclear Savage ...... 47 Beer is Cheaper than Therapy ...... 79 One Step at a Time (Shorts Program) ...... 33 Big Boys Gone Bananas!* ...... 45 Patron Saints ...... 49 The Boxing Girls of Kabul ...... 53 Photographic Memory ...... 61 Bright Leaves (Curated by David Shields) ...... 71 The Prophet ...... 37 Carry Greenham Home (Curated by Astra Taylor) ...... 29 The Reluctant Revolutionary ...... 65 The Castle ...... 57 Renaissance Man ...... 73 Coast Modern ...... 55 Salaam Dunk ...... 49 Crulic—The Path to Beyond ...... 49 Scarlet Road ...... 35 Do You Really Want to Know? ...... 47 Sex Crimes Unit ...... 53 The Fallacy (L’Imposture) ...... 67 Six Million and One ...... 71 Four Horsemen ...... 52 Slice of Life (Shorts Program) ...... 81 General Orders No . 9 ...... 51 Smokin’ Fish ...... 29 Get Your Groove On! (Shorts Program) ...... 57 Staff Entrance (Entrée du Personnel) ...... 61 Girl Model ...... 82 Stock Characters: The Cooking Show ...... 71 Hard Light ...... 51 Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan ...... 27 How To Start a Revolution ...... 33 The Strawberry Tree ...... 52 Imagining Emanuel ...... 39 The Substance—Albert Hofmann’s LSD ...... 53 In the Third Place (Curated by Mark Kingwell) ...... 63 Tahrir—Liberation Square ...... 51 Italy: Love It, or Leave It ...... 31 The Tightrope of Life ...... 69 Ivan & Ivana ...... 39 The Tiniest Place ...... 82 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet ...... 75 United States of Africa ...... 52 Just Beyond Hope ...... 74 Vanishing Point ...... 67 Keepsakes (Shorts Program) ...... 69 Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute . . . 55 Kinder ...... 75 Vito ...... 59 King—A Filmed Record; Montgomery to Memphis ...... 37 ¡Vivan las Antipodas! ...... 74 Last Call at the Oasis ...... 63 Water Children ...... 41 The Law in These Parts ...... 73 Who Cares? ...... 63
2 3 Tickets + General Festival Information The Documentary Media Society
Tickets Membership DOXA is presented by The Documentary Media Society, a Vancouver Board of Directors Tickets: $12 DOXA presents films that have not been seen by Consumer based non-profit, charitable society (incorporated in 1998) devoted Marina Adam (vice-chair), Patrick Carroll (treasurer), Dave Frank, Opening Night Film: $20 Protection BC. Under BC law, anyone wishing to see these to presenting independent and innovative documentaries to Lucy Hyslop, Liesl Jauk, Debra Pentecost (secretary), Steve Opening Night Film + Party: $30 unclassified films must be a member of The Documentary Media Vancouver audiences. Robertson (chair), Jim Smith Membership: $3 Society and 18 years of age or older. When you purchase a Festival Pass: $150 (includes $3 membership) membership for $3, you are entitled to attend any screening in 2012, The society exists to educate the public about documentary film as Programming Committee Festival 5-ticket pack: $55* (online only) provided you show your membership card. an art form through DOXA Documentary Film Festival, a curated Mike Archibald, Justin Mah, Tami Wilson, Dorothy Woodend $ and juried festival comprised of public screenings, panel discussions, Festival 10-ticket pack: 100* (online only) The following films have been classified for younger audiences public forums and educational programs. Screening Committee *Purchasers must select films online in advance. Festival 5 and 10 and will therefore not require a membership: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alonso Aguilar, Barbara Bedont, Amanda Doiron, Lia Haleem, Ticket Packs are valid for general-admission-priced shows valued at Bear 71, Four Horsemen, The Little Team, LoveMEATender, Murder Rachel Levee, Sonia Marino, Pia Massie, Debra Pentecost, $12 each. Passes and Ticket Packs do NOT include Opening Night Mouth, Salaam Dunk, Stock Characters: The Cooking Show, Story of Carmen Pollard, Sadaf Sadeghi, Nancy Shaw, Jung-Sun Song and Festival parties, or the $3 membership. Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan, and Vanishing Point. DOXA Staff, Board & Committees NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES ON ANY TICKETS. Fundraising Committee Interim Executive Director Marina Adam, Joe Clark, Dave Frank, Adrienne Lindsay, Kenji Theatre Procedures for Festival Passholders Kenji Maeda Maeda, Heather Shields Special Offer: Free Geist Subscription Bring your festival pass to Will Call to receive your ticket for the Programming Director Community Engagement Committee Get a one-year digital subscription to Geist Magazine (geist.com) film(s) you wish to see at that venue for that day. Passholders must Dorothy Woodend Cathay Cheng, Selina Crammond, Dave Frank, Gina Garenkooper, free with your online purchase of a Festival Pass or Ticket Pack. arrive at the venue at least 20 minutes prior to the screening. A festival pass does not guarantee you seating to sold-out shows. Alpha Lam, Ron Luther, Dana Wilson Development Director Your festival pass gives you access to all screenings except Opening Joe Clark Advance Tickets Night. All passes are strictly non-transferable and passholders are Advisory Committee required to show ID and valid membership. Please note: no one will Nova Ami, Kris Anderson, Colin Browne, Szu Burgess, Peg Advance tickets are available for purchase until 6pm the day before Outreach and Box Office Coordinator Campbell, Mel D’Souza, Ann Marie Fleming, Cari Green, Colin be admitted once the film has begun. the screening. Gina Garenkooper Low, Duncan Low, Alex Mackenzie, Wendy Oberlander, Carmen Zulu Records • 1972 West 4th Avenue Rodriguez, Lauren Weisler, Aerlyn Weissman
People’s Co-op Books [cash only] • 1391 Commercial Drive Venues Finance Coordinator Nancy Loh www.doxafestival.ca Guest Curators Pacific Cinémathèque • 1131 Howe Street (@Helmcken St) Astra Taylor, The Spirit of Greenham Online purchases are subject to processing fees. Vancity Theatre • 1181 Seymour Street (@Davie St) Programming Officer and Volunteer Coordinator Mark Kingwell, In the Third Place: American Juggalos, Empire Granville 7 Cinemas • 855 Granville Street (@Robson St) Justin Mah Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Terminal Bar Denman Cinemas • 1779 Comox Street (@Denman St) David Shields, Bright Leaves Tickets at the Venues St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church • 1022 Nelson Street Development Officer Festival Box Office • Pacific Cinémathèque, May 5-13 [cash only] (@Burrard St) Selina Crammond Writers Tickets are available for all festival screenings. Box office opens 30 Roundhouse Community Centre • 181 Roundhouse Mews Mike Archibald, Joe Clark, Selina Crammond, Justin Mah, Tami minutes prior to the first screening of the day. (@Drake St and Pacific Blvd) Educational Programs Coordinator Wilson, Dorothy Woodend Subeez Café • 891 Homer Street (@Smithe St) Meghna Haldar Other Venues [cash only] CBC Vancouver • 700 Hamilton Street (@Robson St) Tickets are available for screenings that day at that venue. Box office Communications Coordinator opens 30 minutes prior to the first DOXA screening of the day (one Alpha Lam STAFF hour prior for Opening and Closing Nights). Accessibility All theatres are wheelchair accessible (with the exception of Denman Print Traffic Coordinator Kenji Maeda, Dorothy Woodend, Joe Clark, Gina Garenkooper, Nancy Loh Kathy Evans Rush Tickets Cinemas) with limited spots available. Attendants accompanying people with disabilities will be admitted at no cost. Rush tickets may be available at the door when all advance tickets Venue Managers have been sold. A generous allotment of seats are reserved for Tammy Bannister, Justin Mah, Carolyn Yu Justin Mah, Selina Crammond, Meghna Haldar, Alpha Lam, Kathy Evans, Tammy Bannister passholders. Any unclaimed seats will be released just prior to the Festival Information screening on a first-come first-served basis. [cash only] Media Relations DOXA Office Marnie Wilson / The Artsbiz Public Relations BOARD #5-1726 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC Will Call Graphic Design Carolyn Yu, marnie wilson, steve chow Marina Adam, Patrick Carroll Canada V5N 4A3 Will Call opens one hour prior to screening for Opening and Closing steve chow / chowdesign Nights, and 30 minutes prior for all other screenings. Please arrive in 604.646.3200 | www.doxafestival.ca advance to allow time to pick up your order. You must present your / DOXAfestival confirmation number in order to pick up your tickets. Dave Frank, Lucy Hyslop, Liesl Jauk, Debra Pentecost, Steve Robertson, Jim Smith
4 5 Acknowledgements Thank You
Thank you to our contributors, supporters, and volunteers: The Documentary Media Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our funders, sponsors, and partners. Josephine Anderson Jay Dodge Naz Jamshedian James Moore Karen Shimokura Presenting Partner Kris Anderson Sue Donaldson Gerald Joe Laura Moore Christian Sida-Valenzuela Mike Archibald John Dippong J. Stewart Johnson Gail Moyle Jack Silberman Luanne Armstrong Sherry Ewings Jalal Karim Ken Muir Dr. Jennifer Simons PoChu AuYeung Kamilla Fahradova Moira Keigher Kelly Murphy Jim Sinclair Murray Battle Barbara Fairbrother Mark Kingwell John Nadai Kalie Sinclair Funders Trevor Battye Venay Felton Paul Klassen Doireen Narayan Andrea Sinow David Beers Kristen Fitzpatrick Nancy Knickerbocker Andy Nathani Teri Snelgrove Funded in part through the Canada - British Columbia Labour Market Development Fiona Black Ann Marie Fleming Charles Lacarin Rosie Nathani Chris Spencer Agreement Peggy Bochun Matt Frankish Samiran P Lakshman Leah Nelson Pierre Stolte Nic Bragg Tracey Friesen Alberta Lai Wendy Oberlander Sean Stone Premiere Media PartnerS Media Partners Mickey Brazeau Dan Gawthrup Fiona Tinwei Lam Jackie Papineau Margaret Stone-Mockler Melanie Brian Patty Gibson Corinne Lea Geraldine Parent Astra Taylor Colin Browne Andrea Gin Maureen Leavitt Chris Parry Teresa Toews Michele Brubacher Claude Giroux Suzanne Leduc Kim Pate Wendy Underwood Scott Campbell Avi Goldberg Cynthia Lee Bernice Paul Danielle Viau Amanda Cantelon Ali Grant Dean Leland Sheila Peacock Barbara Ward-Burkitt Jeff Grayston Lauren Weisler Major Partners Tom Charity Julianne Lockhart Terra Poirier Alex Chisholm Zoe Green Marie Lopes Glenna Pollon Christine Welch 24 Michael Choy Genesa Greening Kristen Lukovich Matt Porter Ben West FRAMES DIGITAL FILMS Lisa Christiansen Sher Hackwell Judy Lynne Mireille Potvin Nettie Wild Joelene Clarke James Haldane Joanne MacKinnon Dani Pretto Katharina Wilhelm Tony Cliff Lia Haleem Justin Mah Megan Pyves Marnie Wilson Consulate and Cultural Partners Mark Cohen Mark Hancock Joanna Maratta Cecillia Ramirez Sharron Wilson Sue Cormier Jeanette Hart Diane Mar-Nicolle Rachel Rocco Tami Wilson Caroline Coutts Annette Hassink Pia Massie Carol D. Rodgers Kayi Wong Loc Dao Tanya Hedch Cherryl Masters Klodyne Rodney Harry Wong Libby Davies Crystal Henrickson Kelly Maxwell Ina Rossow Janet Woo Amber Dawn Spencer Chandra Herbert Dale McCarthy Zoe Quinn Gillian Wood Lien Yeung PremierE Hospitality Partner Hospitality Partners Hotel Partner Transportation Partner Benny Deis Melissa Humenick Karie McKinley Ryan Quiring Charles Demers Cathy Hunt Robin McMillan Luigi Sarno Sherry J Yoon Drew Dennis Elaine Hynes Geoffrey McMurchy Leonard Schein Linde Zingaro CAFE • RESTAURANT • BAR Jen DeTracey Julia Ivanova Melinda Michalak David Shields ... and all who are not listed Meeru Dhalwala Phyllis Iverson Robin Mirsky Heather Shields due to print deadline. Felipe Diaz Mike Jamshedian James Missen Liz Shorten SPECIAL EVENT PARTNERS SAFETy Partners Print Partners Thank you to our donors:
BC Producers’ Branch Marina Adam Paul Coulter Judith Ince James Nattall Teri Snelgrove Josephine Anderson Selina Crammond Liesl Jauk Marlie Newbert Jack Sniderman Kris Anderson & Sheena Blair Cresswell Isabella Kessel Jayeson Nicols Allan Snowling Screening Partners Campbell JDR Currie Michael Klassen Wendy Oberlander Andrèe Spence Dale Aucoin Pam Dennis Gerry Kowalenko Olusegun Oduwole Lynda Spratley Susan Baldwin Jamie Donaldson Fiona Lam Seth Oldham Geordie Stowell Dominique Basi Elise Drake Leah Emmersann Debra Pentecost Leslie Thompson Bruce Baum Doreen Dubreuil Learmonth Rosemary Perera Anona Thorne Audience Partners AWARDS Partner Ticket Outlet Partners Trace Bond Andrea Elvidge Stacey Leblanc Celina Peters Mykel Thuncher Michael Boyce Kathleen Evans Jacqueline Levitin Ana Policzer Travelmasters Colin Browne Venay Felton Blair Lewis Alwynn Pollard Mary Ungerleider Philip Brunel Linda Fesyk Barbara Lewison Carol Polloni Sarah Wang Peter Cameron Ken Forster Adrienne Lindsay Lorne Prupas Nicola Way Silvana Campus Dave Frank Heather Lindsay Walter K Quan Lauren Weisler Community Partners Maria A. Capellades Marcia Gailiunas Stephen Lock Bruce Ralston & Karie McKinley Patrick Carrol Hayley Gauvin Catrina Longmuir Steve Robertson Donna Weisler Ursula Casanova Michael Gorenstein Philippa Lyons Alyssa Schwann Derek Weiss Alison Chilton Chris Graham Kenji Maeda Michelle Schwartz Alex Weller Katrina Chowne Sneja Gunew Parick Mallette Wesley Shennan Don Wilson Janice Chutter David Hannigan Moshe Mastai Natasha Silva Solomon Wong Please check www.doxafestival.ca for up-to-date Community Partner listings. Joseph Clark Jenny Harshenin Kelly Maxwell Moira Simpson Dorothy Woodend Patrick Clarke Marq Hawkins Marj McDougall Ikbal Singh Sabra Woodworth Lorie Clay John Hepburn Karie McKinley Shelly Siskind Nabie-Ah Yousuf Carole Clubb Richard Hunter Jim McPherson Paisley Smith Martin Zlotnik Marian Collins Lucy Hyslop Jim Moore Jim Smith ... and our anonymous donors 6 7 GREETINGS FROM OUR FUNDERS Thank You
Thank you to the following supporters and donors who contributed so generously to FEAST, DOXA’s 2011 Fundraiser:
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As a pioneer in film and interactive documentary, the National Film Board of Canada is excited to be part of the 2012 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. DOXA has chosen to kick off their 2012 edition not with a film, but with a It brings me great pleasure to offer my unique live event: a performance of the acclaimed NFB interactive warmest greetings on behalf of the City documentary Bear 71, produced here in Vancouver at our Pacific and of Vancouver, to everyone attending the Yukon Centre. 2012 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. I congratulate DOXA on their leadership in incorporating Documentary film plays an indispensable interactive media and all the documentarians—working both in film role in bringing new issues, concerns and and new media—whose work is being showcased this year. human experiences to public attention. This year’s festival, like those that have gone before, brings a remarkable new series of films, both Enjoy the festival! local and international. Vancouver’s film and television production Tom Perlmutter industry is one of the strongest in North America and programs like Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson DOXA offer an important showcase for documentary productions. of the National Film Board of Canada Have a great festival. Yours truly, Gregor Robertson Mayor, CITY OF VANCOUVER
8 9 WELCOME FROM DOXA Awards
Welcome from the Chair of the Board curators, and forum participants, you provide content and context The DOXA award winners are selected on the basis of three major platform work often deals with themes of family, history and memory. Welcome to the 2012 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, a that is invaluable to our festival and all who attend. And finally, a big criteria: success and innovation in the realization of the project’s She has been writing, directing, animating and producing her own presentation of the Documentary Media Society. We at DOXA thanks to all DOXA audience members who attend the festival and concept; originality and relevance of subject matter and approach; award-winning films since 1987. believe in the power of the documentary to explore and contextualize support us in many ways including sharing the value of DOXA with and overall artistic and technical proficiency. the unique social, cultural, and personal aspects of the human friends in person and across the interwebs. Teri Snelgrove condition and the relationships we share with one another, the Kenji Maeda DOXA Feature Documentary Award Teri Snelgrove worked extensively in theatre before joining the NFB societal institutions we have created, and the natural world in which Interim Executive Director in 2006. She studied film and video at Emily Carr Institute of Art we live. We aim to provide an outlet for makers of documentaries, and Design. Following her graduation, she was the recipient of the for whom exposure opportunities through mainstream media are not Academy of Canadian Film and Television Apprenticeship. She has available, to entertain us, educate us, and affect our sensibilities by produced video installations and worked extensively as a voice director telling us stories involving experiences, ideas, issues, and perspectives Welcome from the Programming Director for documentaries and animation. She is a former board member of that are out of the ordinary and worthy of being told. What is a film festival for? To quote philosopher Mark Kingwell, one DOXA and is thrilled to be a part of the festival again. It is with great pleasure that we bring you another series of what of our eloquent guest curators this year, “the urge for community” is Colin Browne we think you will find to be provocative, entertaining, and engaging the one thing we humans all share. Whether it’s the seediest bar in Charles Demers documentary films from Canada and around the world. We hope New York City, the women’s peace camp of Greenham Common, or Writer and documentary filmmaker Colin Browne teaches in the that you enjoy them and that you tell your family, friends, and Tahrir Square, we are social creatures, and nothing makes this more Film program at the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU. His Charles Demers is a comedian, humourist and author. In addition casual acquaintances all about them. Audience support is the best explicit than a film festival. It is fitting that many of the films we’re recent work has centered on the history and legacy of the Surrealist to having performed at the Just For Laughs Festival and as a regular barometer of the festival’s success and the fact that our audience showing this year are about collective action. Be it marches, riots, fascination with Northwest Coast and Alaskan ceremonial art. His guest on CBC’s The Debaters and This is That, he is the author of continues to grow year after year indicates that our programmers are sit-ins, or revolutions—nothing big ever happens in isolation. This new book, The Properties, has just been published by Talonbooks. He the books The Prescription Errors and Vancouver Special, the latter of doing something right. We encourage you to provide us with your is especially true in DOXA’s closing night gala film Ai Weiwei: Never has a strong interest in the archival preservation of film and digital which was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans BC Book Prize for Non- feedback. Sorry, which captures China’s most infamous provocateur in action media and serves on the boards of B.C. Film and VIFF. Fiction. He is a former co-host of The Citynews List, and has written and performed comedy for TV, stage, radio and web. The festival would not be possible without the tireless year- as he uses the power of the internet to launch a pro-democracy Alex Chisholm round efforts of a group of special individuals. In this regard, I would campaign that sets China on fire. like to acknowledge the DOXA staff, the DOXA Board, and all of There is power in numbers and the only way to make genuine Alex Chisholm graduated from Concordia University’s Film Studies DOXA Short Documentary Award the many deserving volunteers who give generously of their time, change is to do it together. program. In 2001, he produced and directed In the Belly of the Beast, a feature length documentary about Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival experience, and knowledge. All of our sponsors, funders, and donors Anyone who has ever sat in a packed theatre knows exactly what with the NFB’s Filmmaker Assistance Program. The film premiered also deserve a special thank you for their contributions. it feels like to be part of a huge human organism, moving, breathing, at the 2001 Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois. Since 2008, he Thank you again for your continuing support and we look forward and reacting in curious syncopation. DOXA is a festival for the people, has been the programmer, manager and promoter at the Rio Theatre to seeing you at the festival. not just in the films that we show, but the way that we choose to show and also works at Black Dog Video. them. Documentary film has spilled out of the theatres and into the Steve Robertson streets. You can pack a film in your pocket, screen it in chapters on Caroline Coutts DOXA Board Chair Julia Ivanova your blog, show it to intimate gatherings in micro-cinemas, or release Caroline Coutts is a local film programmer and independent it as a webdoc to the world. Our opening film Bear 71 is a stunning Julia Ivanova is an award-winning Vancouver documentary filmmaker, filmmaker. From 2008 to 2011, she was a programmer at the example of the new frontiers in documentary form. In addition to whose latest film, Family Portrait in Black and White, won Best Knowledge Network. Caroline has also worked with the National Welcome from the Interim Executive Director being a homegrown phenomenon (created right here at the NFB’s Canadian Feature at Hot Docs 2011, screened at Sundance and Film Board, Moving Pictures: Canadian Films on Tour, CBC British was nominated for a Genie Award. Ivanova organizes professional Documentaries can be the catalyst for change—in the heart and in Digital Studio in Vancouver) it is a live show, an interactive installation, Columbia and Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society. She also development workshops for DOC BC, co-chairs DOC BC, is on the the mind. The change comes in the form of major revelations to micro and, above all, a profound cinematic experience. Documentary is in curates the monthly Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Series at the Board of Directors for Hot Docs Documentary Festival and mentors shifts of acknowledgement of the truths presented through the eyes the midst of a veritable flowering of ideas, bursting forth in an amazing Pacific Cinémathèque. emerging filmmakers through Giving Voice DOC program. of the documentarian. Welcome to the 2012 DOXA Documentary springtime. How to make sense of such abundance? Discussion is Film Festival where, over ten days, you will have the opportunity to often the best way to understand anything, and with this idea in mind Chris Parry (quite literally) DOXA has partnered with Simon Fraser University’s experience parts of the world you’ve never seen, people you’ve never NFB COLIN LOW AWARD FOR CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY, A former unit production manager for Kevin Smith’s View Askew met, and stories you’ve never heard. Philosophers’ Café to provide audiences the opportunity to debate and discuss the things that divide us and draw us together. CO-SPONSORED BY WILLIAM F. WHITE Productions, Chris Parry co-founded Australia’s largest film magazine This year, we’re proud that through DOXA we can showcase high Prize: $1000 cash award courtesy of the NFB and a $2500 grant Filmink, the film opinion website eFilmCritic.com, hosted CJSF 90.1 -caliber films while also pushing the boundaries of how documentary The term “interesting times” doesn’t quite do this year justice. courtesy of the WFW National Grants Program. FM’s Fellini Is King radio show for six years, and worked as a film critic stories are told, as you’ll experience with Bear 71 on opening night in It’s been something of a wild ride, but the DOXA team has worked for media outlets as varied as IFC TV, The Hollywood Reporter, FHM a beautiful heritage church, and through its interactive installation together to present an outstanding lineup of films. I am deeply in awe and MrSkin.com. He is currently the Digital Projects Editor for The later in the festival. of the passion and energy of the filmmakers who devote themselves Vancouver Sun and The Province newspapers. to telling human stories, both large and small, as well as the DOXA Putting together an event like DOXA wouldn’t happen without audience who are themselves a force to be reckoned with. But most Ben West the effort of a team of dedicated individuals during the festival of all I want to thank my friends and colleagues at DOXA. We have and year-round. My thanks go out to the DOXA staff who make been to war together, but we still make each other laugh even in the As the Healthy Communities Campaigner for the Wilderness it a pleasure to walk into the office every day and to the Board of Committee, Ben is responsible for organizing grassroots campaigns most challenging of moments, and for that I am, and will always be, Ann Marie Fleming Directors for their support and guidance as we move the organization deeply grateful. related to fighting climate change and reducing toxic pollution. He forward. Thanks to our funders, sponsors, and donors – we could not Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian writer, artist and spends most of his time these days trying to stop oil tankers from do this without your support—and to our many volunteers whose time Dorothy Woodend filmmaker who works in a variety of different genres (animation, exporting heavy crude oil through the BC coast. In all his work, Ben is and energy allows our festival to run smoothly. To the filmmakers, Programming Director experimental, documentary, and dramatic), and whose multi- driven by his passion for environmental justice, and ecological literacy. 10 11 Imagining Emanuel (p 39) Thomas A Østbye, Norway, 2011 2:00PM Sunday, May 6, 2012 • Vancity Theatre Featured Speakers: Zool Suleman, lawyer and past Chair, Vancouver Free Panel Discussions Mayors Working Group on Immigration; Ruby Smith Diaz, member Roundhouse Community Centre Theatre of No One Is Illegal, Vancouver Coast Salish Territories Thursday, May 10, 2012 from 1:30-5:00PM JUSTICE MAKING Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (p 45) 1:30PM-2:30PM • Mentorship is Powerful FORUM Fredrik Gertten, Sweden, 2011 WAVES Mentorship for women filmmakers is often a critically important 6:00PM Sunday, May 6, 2012 • Vancity Theatre part of learning the documentary ropes. In an increasingly complex Featured Speakers: Fredrik Gertten, Director, Big Boys Gone world, the support of other women can have an enormous impact Bananas!*; Randy Hooper, Discovery Organics, Fair Trade activist on filmmakers’ career and work. Panelists will include Tracey Friesen (Executive Producer, Pacific & Yukon Centre, National Film Board DOXA is very proud to offer the third annual Justice Forum. First of Canada), Sheila Peacock (Specials and new talent & program introduced at the 2010 Festival, the Justice Forum has grown and Tahrir—Liberation Square (p 51) Spotlight on Canadian development producer CBC/ Radio Canada), and Maureen Leavitt developed into one of DOXA’s most important programs. The Stefano Savona, Italy/France, 2011 Women in Documentary (Creative Development Representative at Super Channel). intent of the Justice Forum is to offer DOXA audiences a means for 7:00PM Monday, May 7, 2012 • Vancity Theatre The seminal work of Canadian women documentary filmmakers direct engagement with global justice issues through passionate and Featured Speakers: Karim Alrawi, Egyptian author, playwright, and has rippled out across the globe, influencing the development of 2:45PM-3:45PM • New Frontiers: Online Documentary expansive discussion about the films presented in the festival. The human rights activist documentary practice the world over. DOXA celebrates Canadian Women filmmakers have entered into the territory of webdocs to 2012 Justice Forum films are international both in origin and focus, women documentary filmmakers, past, present and future, with create innovative forms of documentary narrative. This discussion and encompass a broad range of social justice issues. Making Waves, a full-day event with panels, interactive features, and will feature in-depth presentations of this brave new world of Sex Crimes Unit (p 53) Lisa F. Jackson, USA, 2011 talks, capped off with a gala screening of Brishkay Ahmed’s new film documentary practice. Panelists will include Nettie Wild (Inside major Partner 6:00PM, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan. Stories), Leanne Allison (Bear 71) and Josephine Anderson (The Featured Speakers: Sergeant Ron Bieg, Lead Investigator, Sex Films included in Making Waves are Brishkay Ahmed’s Story of Sticking Place). Crimes Unit, VPD; Wendy van Tongeren Harvey, Crown Counsel Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan, Leanne Allison’s Bear 71, Elaine and author Carol’s Stock Characters: The Cooking Show, Violette Daneau’s The 4:00PM-5:00PM • Funding Bodies and Minds Tightrope of Life, Rosie Dransfeld’s Who Cares?, Ève Lamont’s The What do funders really need to hear from filmmakers, and vice versa? Fallacy (L’Imposture), and Pia Massie’s Just Beyond Hope. This is an opportunity for a frank and open discussion between the Vito (p 59) people who make films and the people who give them money. Jeffrey SCHwarz, USA, 2011 9:00PM, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 • Denman Cinemas Featured Speakers: Peter Dickinson, Professor of English, SFU and special event Partners BC Producers’ Branch film curator; barbara findlay, Q.C., lawyer and activist
Staff Entrance (Entrée du Personnel) (p 61) Manuela Frésil, France, 2011 4:00PM Wednesday, May 9, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Featured Speakers: Jennifer Jihye Chun, Associate Professor of How to Start a Revolution (p33) Sociology, Faculty Fellow at Liu Institute for Global Studies, UBC Ruaridh Arrow, UK, 2011 6:00PM Saturday, May 5, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Featured Speakers: Maria Del Mattia, President/CEO of NOW The Law in These Parts (p 73) Communications; Darren Fleet, Adbusters Media Foundation Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Occupied Palestine, 2011 2:30PM Friday, May 11, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Bear 71 – NFB Interactive Installation Featured Speakers: Nicholas Blomley, critical legal geographer and Roundhouse Community Centre Scarlet Road (p 35) Chair, Department of Geography, SFU Thursday, May 10 – Saturday, May 12, 2012 Catherine Scott, Australia, 2011 Open Daily 6:00PM Saturday, May 5, 2012 • Vancity Theatre Gala Screening Featured Speakers: Scarlett Lake, escort service madame, sex Beer is Cheaper than Therapy (p 79) MAJOR Partners activist, member of EASE; Dave Symington, counselor, disability Simone de Vries, The Netherlands, 2011 Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan (p 27) rights activist, member of EASE (Equitable and Accessible Sexual 12:00PM Saturday, May 12, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Brishkay Ahmed, Canada, 2012
Expression) Featured Speakers: Marvin Westwood, Professor of Counseling and AUDIENCE Partner Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00PM • Empire Granville 7 Cinemas co-developer of Veterans Transition Program, UBC; Tim Laidler, Featuring a live performance from Afghan singer Executive Director, Veterans Transition Program (UBC) and soldier Mozhdah Jamalzadah. (British Columbia Regiment)
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DOXA’s ability to engage young audiences in a conversation about Vanishing Point (p 67) social justice and change is critical to our organization, and we remain Stephen A. Smith and Julia Szucs, Canada, 2011 Philo Documentary Ethics committed to ensuring that the festival remains open to the principles 1:00PM Thursday, May 10, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque sophers’ Monday, May 7, 7:00PM of accessibility, dialogue, and media literacy. Whether it is through Featured Speaker: Robert Semeniuk, author, photojournalist and Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street providing young women filmmakers access to film workshops and human and environmental rights activist CAFé Patron Saints (p 49) industry professionals or giving high school students the opportunity to engage with challenging topics and learn critical media skills Stock Characters: The Cooking Show (p 71) through our Rated Y for Youth educational program, DOXA uses To Do No Harm: Documentaries on Drugs Elaine Carol, Canada, 2011 documentary films to propel social action, incite discussion and make Tuesday, May 8, 5:30PM 1:00PM Friday, May 11, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque change. Subeez Café, 891 Homer Street Featured Speakers: Dakota Prince, performer/co-writer in Open for debate: The Substance—Albert Hofmann’s LSD (p 53) Miscellaneous Productions; Michael Cheng, performer/co-writer in Philosophy on film Miscellaneous Productions; Elaine Carol, interdisciplinary artist and Artistic Director of Miscellaneous Productions The word “doxa” means a belief or opinion that is tested in open Home Movies: Family on Film argument and debate. With this idea in mind, DOXA, in partnership Wednesday, May 9, 7:00PM screening partner with The Philosophers’ Café, offers a special series of cafés dedicated Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street to some of the most pressing, divisive, and fascinating issues of the Photographic Memory (p 61) day that are captured in documentary film. Free admission, but DOXA is pleased to present the fourth seating is limited. annual Rated Y for Youth (RYY), our To Live or Die school outreach program. DOXA selects Thursday, May 10, 5:30PM programming specifically for high school special even t partners Subeez Café, 891 Homer Street students, giving youth an opportunity to attend CAFE • RESTAURANT • BAR An Encounter with Simone Weil (p 67) the festival, view thought-provoking documentaries, and participate in lively post-film discussions with filmmakers and community members. With films from France to Australia, Canada to Spain, this is truly a global representation of documentary filmmaking. We are exceptionally pleased to present the world premiere of Stock Characters: The Cooking Show from Vancouver’s own Miscellaneous Productions. The stories these films tell are challenging, fascinating, and occasionally downright heart melting.
The RYY films this year are: The Kris Anderson Connexions Youth Forum Salaam Dunk (p 49) In 2012, DOXA and the National Film Board of Canada (Pacific-Yukon) David Fine, USA, 2011 are exceptionally proud to offer the Kris Anderson Connexions Youth 1:00PM Monday, May 7, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Forum. Named in honour of DOXA’s founder, Connexions fosters Featured Speaker: Dana Mohammed Olwan, Ruth Wynn Woodward documentary filmmaking and storytelling skills in young women as a Junior Chair in Women’s Studies at SFU, author of Dishonourable way to address gender inequality within the film industry. Participants Crimes: Murder, Rescue, and the Politics of Canadian Multiculturalism, will create short film projects, meet with industry mentors, and attend and a member of Palestinian solidarity groups. festival screenings. The workshop production mentors are Catrina Longmuir, Lisa G. Nielson, and Moira Simpson. Industry mentors Four Horsemen (p 52) include Tracey Friesen, Janice Brown, Aerlyn Weissman, Cari Green, Ross Ashcroft, UK, 2011 Gael MacLean, Teri Snelgrove, and Lisa Miller. The short documentary 1:00PM Tuesday, May 8, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque films that the Connexions participants create will screen at DOXA’s Featured Speaker: William Rees, human ecologist, ecological special presentation of Brishkay Ahmed’s new film Story of Burqa, economist, and Founding Director of OneEarth Initiative part of Making Waves: Spotlight on Canadian Women in Documentary.
LoveMEATender (p 59) Connexions Partners Manu Coeman, Belgium, 2011 1:00PM Wednesday, May 9, 2012 • Pacific Cinémathèque Featured Speaker: Twyla Francois, Head Investigator, Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Food Animals; Jerry Gelderman, owner of Gelderman Farms, pork and blueberry farmer
15 essay The film’s darker side is never too far off-camera: “brightleaf” tobacco—the variety of tobacco leaf grown most commonly in this region—kills more people every couple of years than all the battles Thursday May 10 9:15 PM | VT of the Civil War combined. McElwee is interested in how smokers Bright Leaves and farmers rationalize this fact. He talks with a group of beauty- Ross McElwee, USA, 2003, 105 mins school students who are on a smoke break (“I’ll quit whenever I get lung cancer”) and whose school happens to be housed in one of McElwee’s great grandfather’s old tobacco warehouses. He talks with an elderly tobacco farmer and goes to church with him to hear him sing. He talks with doctors and lung cancer patients, including an octogenarian who has been smoking since age four. He goes to a smoky college party. He trains his lens on a newly married couple who want to be recorded smoking their last cigarettes before they “quit.” McElwee is troubled and aroused by the act of smoking, though he doesn’t smoke himself (McElwee’s father didn’t smoke, either, because watching his own father’s slow surrender to lung cancer was Protect one of the hardest things he ever had to do). the care McElwee’s homeward quest parallels the plot of this old Every day, in B.C.’s hospitals and movie—only McElwee is not long-term care homes, HEU members out for vengeance but for are working to make sure you and your something closer to revelation. family receives the best care possible.
In the 1950 movie Bright Leaf, Gary Cooper’s character returns We’re your health care team to North Carolina to avenge the demise of his father’s tobacco farm, Behind the scenes and at the bedside, which was overrun by the rival Duke family, who stole the formula for what would become a hugely profitable strain of tobacco. McElwee’s your care is our first priority. homeward quest parallels the plot of this old movie—only McElwee is We’re committed to protecting and Bright Leaves not out for vengeance but for something closer to revelation. improving health services for every By David Shields, Guest Curator Again and again McElwee’s first purposes are derailed, but British Columbian. to enchanting effect. His son, Adrian, doesn’t really care about The short-story writer Antonya Nelson says that McElwee’s search takes him all around North Carolina tobacco McElwee’s film or about Southern family heritage. McElwee learns the best nonfiction “gets lucky.” Similarly, the best nonfiction jumps country, and the resulting film is a weave of stories, meditations, that the old movie Bright Leaf has nothing to do with his great Join us in speaking out the tracks, using its ostensible “subject” as a Trojan horse to get and conversations that follow a few distinct threads. McElwee first grandfather in particular. He fails to find the North Carolina of his and standing up for public solutions at richer material than its author originally intended. Bright Leaves visits a distant cousin named John, a lawyer who lives in an isolated youth, or relics of the storied ancestry he so romantically imagines. pretends to be about McElwee’s conflicted relation to his family’s farmhouse improbably stocked with a huge collection of original His interview with Gary Cooper’s co-star, Patricia Neal, fails to reveal to make your health care stronger. tobacco farm, whereas it’s really about the way in which we all will do Hollywood posters, film reels, and stills. John’s basement is a climate- what he’d hoped it would. Failure. Failure. Failure. anything—make a movie, smoke cigarettes, collect film stills, build a controlled archive, complete with shelves of serial numbered film The University of North Carolina School of the Arts has a birdhouse, hold a lifelong torch for someone, find religion—to try to canisters and a viewing room. permanent movie set on campus—a Hollywood throwback for use get beyond ourselves. As are most of the people McElwee films, John appears by the film students, complete with Main-Street-USA facades and McElwee goes on a journey home, from Massachusetts to North remarkably unselfconscious on camera. This is part of the magic of avenues, where McElwee stops for an interview with visiting film Carolina, to find out whether Gary Cooper’s character in the 1950 Bright Leaves: its subjects speak and act with captivating nakedness. theorist Vlada Petric. McElwee wants to hear from Petric that the movie Bright Leaf is really based on McElwee’s great grandfather One gets the impression that McElwee shoulders the camera movie Bright Leaf is in fact an unrecognized classic, but Petric gives (according to family lore, it is). Ross thinks it would be fascinating if nonstop during his daily life, and that as a result the people around the Gary Cooper film no such praise, and the resulting conversation a piece of old Hollywood melodrama could double as a sort of home him simply have gotten used to this unblinking accessory. (which takes place as Petric inexplicably pushes McElwee around in a wheelchair) once again veers toward McElwee’s true subject: the movie, a fictional rendering of the life his great grandfather actually McElwee occasionally travels around with one of his old nature of “reality” and the exciting difficulty of trying to capture it. led. teachers—a monologist named Charlene, who many will recognize But what follows is not the story of McElwee on any family- from McElwee’s previous films, including Sherman’s March; she quips history research mission. Instead, his documentary’s premise about the South and suicide-by-cigarettes and money and love, David Shields is the author of twelve books, including Reality Hunger becomes an excuse to talk to people about smoking and death and blurts funny and mystifying non sequiturs, and likes playing Virgil on (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best books of the year by A message from the members the South, to watch them bowling and telling stories, to catch some McElwee’s journey into the old country: a sticky, hot North Carolina more than thirty publications. His previous book, The Thing About Life of the Hospital Employees Union glimpses of life as it is, and to marvel at how a running camera, like a where the fat tobacco leaves give off their own body heat and look Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times long drag on a cigarette, can suspend the current of time. like prehistoric flora. bestseller. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. 16 17 essay When I finally got a chance to see the film again last week, the images you—the bike lock protest, for example—is happening simultaneously were familiar, nostalgic. Occupy encampments in most cities had at all of the other gates as part of a well-planned and exquisitely been disbanded by brute force. In the middle of a November night coordinated action. As a result, the protest seems smaller and more Saturday May 5 12:00 PM | PC in New York City, I watched from across the barricades as everything scattershot than it actually was. But it also reminds the viewer that Carry Greenham Home occupiers had built was thrown into massive garbage trucks guarded Greenham was something experienced by many people, from many Beeban Kidron & Amanda Richardson, UK, 1983, 69 mins by armed men. Over one thousand police officers in full riot gear angles. Fortunately for us, the director was farsighted enough to were called upon to clear the scene as a paramilitary helicopter catch one view on tape. hovered overhead. Liberty Square, with its “people’s library” and food Yet despite the fact Greenham Common was documented and, kitchen and constant parade of characters, was already historic. more importantly, that tens of thousands of women participated in The women of Greenham Common faced eviction too, as the the protest over the years, the event has been largely written out of movie shows. They were dragged off to jail and had their possessions activist history. Occupy, having emerged in an age of social media, seized. But they were nothing if not tenacious: they simply came back obsessively documented and live-streamed since its inception, and carried on as though nothing had happened. It was a different may not meet the same fate, though only time will tell. Whatever time, though, and they had a different target. Some of the protest the case may be, Greenham Common challenges us to think about methods of the Greenham women— the role of media in movement including cutting the fence that Yet despite the fact Greenham building at a time when many are circled the military base, bolting the Common was documented and, quick to credit the Internet with gates with heavy-duty bike locks so more importantly, that tens of causing political upheaval. Armed the officials were trapped inside, and only with telephones and word of thousands of women participated painting peace doves on fighter jets— mouth, intrepid women created a would certainly get them branded in the protest over the years, campaign that was sprawling and as “terrorists” today. And while they the event has been largely non-hierarchical, decentralized and often suffered arrest and trial, they written out of activist history. “networked”—but also stunningly were never pepper sprayed or shot at agile and effective, deeply rooted, with rubber bullets like so many demonstrators in recent months. The and long-lived. Part of Occupy’s power, like Greenham’s before it, British armed forces, as Ann Snitow explained in an account of the is that it engages people face-to-face in real space. Technology, protests, “want[ed] to maintain their image of patriarchal protectors.” however useful, is secondary. Exposing their own violence by squelching the women once and for The legacy of Greenham challenges us in other ways as well. Here all would have been a kind of defeat in its own right. in New York City during an unseasonably warm fall, organizers fretted And so the women stayed. And stayed. They stayed and camped endlessly about the impact of winter, worried that the cold would keep The Spirit of Greenham until the missiles were removed and the land was given back to the people at home. The Greenham women, in contrast, were unfazed By Astra Taylor, Guest Curator people. The land was continually occupied for 19 years all told, by a by rain and sleet or by dwindling numbers; they held out, sometimes rotating cast of women who came from all over, some visiting for a only a few souls guarding a gate for days at a time, and waited for the few days, others moving in for good. It all began in the summer of sun to come and reinforcements to arrive. They were dogged. While In October of 2011, I was at a retreat in upstate NEW steel and mirrors, hundreds of people were eating, sleeping, dancing, 1981 when a small group of women, accompanied by a handful of men the exclusion of men may seem troubling and dated, dependent on York. About a dozen artists and activists were gathered to discuss and debating. Ten years before that, on the day the towers came and children, decided to take a long walk for peace. They marched rickety stereotypes of women as innately more “peaceful” than men, the idea of the “commons”—defined as everything from land and falling down, I was a dozen-odd blocks away watching the sky fill with 120 miles to a site where the US Air Force planned to install 96 cruise the uncomfortable truth is that gender is still a problem for the radical water to culture and knowledge—and how, through our creative and smoke, the first sign of a fast-spreading culture of fear. Many of us missiles: Greenham Common, a base surrounded by nine miles of left and, specifically, for Occupy, where women have occasionally intellectual work, we might contribute to the cause of that which who felt the crackdown on dissent after September 11th assumed ten-foot-high chainlink fence. When the media ignored their arrival felt sidelined and tokenized and sexually harassed. Though we have belongs to all. One evening a friend invited everyone to watch a movie the occupation of Wall Street would be impossible, that it wouldn’t some of the women chained themselves to the barricade. Others, supposedly imbibed the lessons of feminism and gender studies, the she had on her hard drive, a film relevant to our shared purpose and last more than an afternoon. People younger than us, inspired by naturally, set up tents so they could stay and support them. The images of Greenham women, militant and audacious, still have the one, she promised, we would love: Carry Greenham Home. “It was a the uprisings they had just seen in countries like Egypt and Spain, summer turned into winter and then summer again and the number capacity to shock and inspire. Finally, the encampment at Greenham big protest in England against the nuclear arms race,” she explained, asked why not. Why not hold ground and grow a movement on it? of tents grew, clustered at the various gates, and a movement— Common challenges us to push the envelope, to boldly imagine “a women’s peace camp.” And then, when no one seemed particularly Walking around the encampment at Liberty Square, it felt as though feminist, leaderless, and endlessly inventive—was born. what nonviolent direct action can be. Determined to resist the grim enthusiastic about the suggestion: “There’s singing!” fear had finally been flung from our backs, our imaginations released acceptance of mutually assured destruction, the demonstrators from their pens. And as though that was all it took, the encampments The movie started, projected on a small screen from what looked combined fearlessness and compassion, fury and beauty, shouts and began to spread, tents popping up faster than anyone believed As a film, Carry Greenham Home is observational and to be a low-res digital transfer of a degraded VHS copy, and we all song to create a new type of protest. As Occupy enters a new phase, possible in cities around the world. For a beautiful moment it seemed sat, riveted. Who were these heroic, hilarious women “living in the direct. It shows what it was like to be part of the movement through may the spirit of Greenham Common carry on. like Occupy was everywhere. mud,” as one of them puts it using crazy, uncompromising methods a series of vignettes, no voiceover, just eyes and ears. The gaze is to call attention to the unspeakable insanity of war? And why the hell intimate and unwavering, the single camera offering the perspective hadn’t I ever heard of them before? of someone in the crowd so you feel part of the action. You see Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She is the director of When I first saw Carry Greenham Home the images OF things up close, like the look on women’s faces while they protest and two films about philosophy, Zizek! and Examined Life. Both premiered Little did I know that a year later I would be standing in a protesters camping out were foreign, magic. The women of sing, when they squabble and cry, when they’re dragged off by the at the Toronto International Film Festival and screened around the world. radical camp of my own, surrounded by tents and tarps and all the Greenham Common seemed to exist on another planet, a strange authorities, when they’re laughing with glee. Often, important things She has an MA from The New School for Social Research and received accoutrements of daily life in the middle of lower Manhattan. In a place where people endure inconvenience—sleeping on hard ground, are being shouted off screen, out of sight. The view is partial and the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award. small park in the shadow of the Freedom Tower, a monstrosity of going without showers, being locked up in jail—for political principles. blocked. You have no idea that what is being undertaken in front of
18 19 essay I think we all recognize this fact, even if we deplore it, or collard greens, and fucking mashed potatoes” which actually sounds abstain from this intoxicant and that, or have witnessed up close the pretty fucking tasty. The Juggalo campground is a moveable feast, a damage of “social drinking” and “recreational drug use”, which too third place of the messed-up mind. Who can doubt that its claims to often mutate quickly into anger, meanness, neglect, and violence. community are real? Alcoholism and drug addiction are suicide on the installment plan. Likewise with the loaded Judas Priest fans in Maryland who But it’s the yearning I’m talking about, the ache for comfort and transform a parking lot into a festival surrounding a temple (Heavy rightness. There’s a reason for the euphemistic usage of “watering Metal Parking Lot). I was more of a Clash fan than a Priest acolyte, hole” to describe a bar, that oasis in the desert of life. but the convoy of Camaros and Chevettes, the profusion of centre- The people in these three documentaries are, most of them, parted fluffy hair, the elbow-length rock ‘n’ roll t-shirts and bandanas, pretty wasted. Some of them are destined to be, as Sheldon Nadelman the suspenders, high-crowned ballcaps and cutoff jeans—well, it says in Terminal Bar, “taken by the street.” But I chose the films (and takes me back. And amid all the heavy metal stylings, watch for the I think they belong together) to illustrate a second awkward fact that brief glimpse of a smiling blowdried preppy in aviator shades and pink lies underneath the first one, and that concerns an even deeper ache Lacoste polo shirt, collar popped, who clearly thinks he is in line to see than the one for bracketing selfhood’s Haircut 100. Or that awesome Valley insistent demands. I mean the desire The urge for the community, Girl at the end, Kelly, who issues an for communion with those who share the human need to connect, has ironic DUI warning and then pushes the first yearning, and, even more off the two lunging, hammered oafs: important, for a physical place to baseline limits. Compassion and “Get away from me! Please!” fellow-feeling are fragile. More answer the two needs together. Tailgates deserve a sociological The sociologist Ray Oldenburg seriously, no matter how many study all to themselves, from the coined the term “the third place” friends we have, we all die alone. sub-zero barbarian bacchanalias of for the space where this complex of Steelers and Bills games to the Range desires can, sometimes, be answered. The third place is neither work Rover and crystal glass displays at the annual Harvard-Yale fixture nor home. It is not a space of motion or transaction, like a street or a known simply as The Game. Roger Ebert may choose to describe the store; it is a place simply to be, to enjoy. The list of these “great good Heavy Mental Parking Lot tailgate as “stoned worshipers at the shrine places” between work and home includes bars, pubs, taverns, cafés, of their own bewilderment,” but I think that’s too condescending. This beer gardens, coffee houses, parks, even post offices and barber isn’t bewilderment; it is, instead, one of the variform declensions of shops. They offer warmth and company, also solitude and anonymity; human joy. Those faces! Those stories! And where are they now, the there is food and drink, gossip and intrigue, diversion and discourse. In sublime Priest fans of yore? some cultures, the place takes on an almost spiritual quality, beyond Which I guess brings me to the third awkward fact in play here, in the third place mere coziness or Gemütlichkeit, approaching a transcendent serenity. lurking in the shadows and yet in plain view whenever we want to get By Mark Kingwell, Guest Curator The third place is a public space, and hence also a public good, sideways in the company of others. The urge for the community, the in the economist’s sense of being non-exclusive on the outside human need to connect, has baseline limits. Compassion and fellow- I mention this as a way to introduce a sometimes awkward fact (it is open to everyone) and non-rival on the inside (there is no feeling are fragile. More seriously, no matter how many friends we without which you cannot appreciate this trio of short documentaries. competition for enjoyment). If you are lucky or rich enough to belong have, we all die alone. You could even say that, in a kind of paradox Wednesday May 9 6:00 PM | PC Sure, you can clothe drinking and other vices in sophistication and to a gentlemen’s club or country club, that might be your third place, of human consciousness, it is precisely awareness of those limits that American Juggalo connoisseurship. You can articulate your tasting notes, the caramel but the idea of gated membership is foreign to the spirit of the third prompts the urge they limit. I mean what Martin Heidegger would call Sean Dunne, USA, 2011, 23 mins scents and spicy undertones, and list your fancy cultural allusions: place. our “ownmost possibility”: not the mere fact of death; rather, the fact that nobody can do our dying for us. Terminal Bar Cary Grant orders a Gibson on the train out of Grand Central in Which is not to say that officially open places may not turn out Stefan Nadelman, USA, 2003, 23 mins North by Northwest, and Philip Marlowe drinks the same in Raymond to be constrained, public houses in name only. English folk culture That awareness is mostly unconscious, and of course we contrive Heavy Metal Parking Lot Chandler’s Playback, but Marlowe drinks gimlets, not Gibsons, in from Tolkien to Coronation Street idolizes the appeal of “the local”— many ways to keep it at a distance. But there is no profit in despising John Heyn and Jeff Krulik, USA, 1986, 17 mins The Long Goodbye. That’s all great, and I enjoy it, just like I enjoy the going down the boozer for a social pint or two—but anyone who has these distractions and alterations of consciousness. They are ambiance of a saloon right after opening time, when, as a character in lived in Britain knows that entering certain pubs can cause a battery human, all too human. Far better to reflect on the force of Sheldon the last novel says, “the air inside is cool and clean and everything is of cold stares to swing your way, or even lead to fisticuffs. Bars and Nadelman’s hard-won Eighth Avenue wisdom: “When one person’s shiny and the barkeep is giving himself that last look in the mirror to cafés regulate clientele with messages far more subtle than just high lying in the street, everyone’s lying in the street.” Toast that. I used to write a cocktail column for a men’s see if his tie is straight and his hair is smooth.” prices or posted dress codes. The unfamiliar can be made to feel But underneath all this clean glitter is a simple fact that accounts unwelcome. magazine, maybe the best part-time job in the world. What was, Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto for the basic appeal of drink and drugs: humans like to get fucked up before, a slightly disreputable interest in bars and drinks was instantly Still, the ideal is one I think we all recognize, just like we recognize and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of 15 now and then. The burden of everyday consciousness can be a heavy transformed into research. I wrote off my bar tabs and liquor-store how the ideal speaks to human need, especially when it is enhanced books of political, cultural and aesthetic theory and is currently at work load, and the hundredfold mundane challenges of being here, working bills. I enjoyed films and novels exclusively for their use of drinks by the self-selection around a cult artwork or a shared musical on a large-scale study of 21st-century democracy. and drinkers. I was invited to gin tastings and brandy unveilings of and living and dealing with other people and the world, conspire to passion. I might not myself seek tribe by smoking dope in the woods awesome preciousness. The only downside was that I had to sample make that first hit, pull, snort, or shot look not only like a welcome with tattooed Insane Clown Posse fans (American Juggalo). But I a lot of bad cocktails, but that was easily remedied by drinking a respite from life but also an affirmation of its possibilities. Stronger believe them when they say they would welcome me if I chose to good one. than an evasion; more like the right idea, a twisted sort of duty to self. come, maybe to join in on some “fucking chicken-fried steak, fucking
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Bear 71 Leanne Allison, Jeremy Mendes and NFB Digital Studio, Canada, 2011 Leanne Allison, Jeremy Mendes, and the NFB Digital Studios’ NFB to bring Bear 71 home to Vancouver within the stunning setting remarkable new interactive documentary does so much more than of Saint Andrew’s-Wesley Church. –DW trace the life of a grizzly bear in Banff National Park. Captured, It’s such a different approach to filmmaking and art, that it may take a collared, and christened Bear 71 at age three, this mother grizzly while for the average Joe or Jane to take it all in, but that’s kind of the was under surveillance for the rest of her life. Motion-triggered trail point: We’re only half-awake to our animal nature, and all our ambient cameras captured her daily activities in grainy low-fi footage, like technology only serves to shove us deeper and deeper into a state of the kind used to spy on humans at 7-Eleven. Along with the other instinct denial. – The Vancouver Sun residents of the park—golden eagles, bighorn sheep, wolves, and deer, Bear 71’s every move was analyzed. But who watches the watchers? Followed by DOXA’s Opening Night Party The answer may surprise you as the film also examines the systems of PARCE QU’ON A PARFOIS ENVIE CBC Vancouver • 700 Hamilton Street | 9:00pm surveillance that have, in turn, trapped us all in a larger web of control. A singular cinematic experience and an emotionally profound work, D’UN PEU PLUS DE CONTENU. MAJOR Partner Bear 71 shows that the illusion of freedom is just that. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada (Vancouver faTiGUÉ des vidÉos de cHaTs? visiTeZ onf.ca and Edmonton) and featuring narration from actress Mia Kirshner and a script from J.B. MacKinnon (The 100 Mile Diet), Bear 71 is Bear 71 - NFB Interactive Installation an interactive and immersive experience that blurs the boundaries Roundhouse Community Centre between surveillance and subjectivity. Bear 71 questions the very idea Thursday, May 10 – Saturday, May 12, 2012 of documentary presentation and offers up a poetic investigation of Open Daily | Free | Roundhouse Community Centre the densely tangled and interconnected systems of wired and wild life. Featuring live musical performances by Tim Hecker, Loscil, and cellist MAJOR PartnerS Heather McIntosh, DOXA is exceptionally proud to partner with the
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Alison Klayman, USA, 2011, 91 mins Can art change the world? The work of Chinese artist, dissident, and But dissent on this scale is not without consequence in China. provocateur extraordinaire Ai Weiwei provides a resounding yes to When Ai’s studio was bulldozed and the artist placed under arrest, the that question. price of speaking out was literally tallied in the form of a tax bill of 2.4 From his infamous one-fingered salute to the Motherland to the million dollars levied against the artist. It is Ai’s role as a symbol for 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds that graced the Tate Modern freedom in China that is perhaps his masterwork. Turbine Hall in London, Ai’s raging, subversive, gleeful work has been Director Alison Klayman’s film is a stunning achievement and DOXA at the vanguard of a new wave of Chinese contemporary art. It was is very proud to offer this remarkable film on the fourth anniversary of his role as an activist, however, that vaulted him into something of a the Sichuan earthquake. –DW global figurehead for the pro-democracy movement in China. On May 12th, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan Province killed more than 86,633 people, including over 5,000 SCREENING Partners schoolchildren who were buried alive when their schools collapsed. Whether or not shoddy construction was to blame, the government’s lack of accountability fueled a grassroots campaign for answers. Parents who lost their only children refused to be silenced and fought a ferocious battle with the government. After visiting Sichuan, Ai set out to document every child killed in the earthquake. Using his Twitter account, he issued a call for people to record themselves speaking the name of one of the children who died. This was more than a work of art; it was a fight to the death against censorship and corruption, and an unrelenting call for freedom.
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importers, to Iranian politicians, to spy agents and suicide bombers, connexions partners ”All have benefited from burqa,” says Brishkay. “The women under have always lost.” The reality of wearing a burqa becomes explicitly apparent when the director dons a pale blue version and attempts to navigate the complexities of stairs and city streets. With humour, tenacity and the fierce intelligence, Story of Burqa picks apart the tangled threads of Afghanistan’s complex and complicated history to reveal the barefaced facts. Control over the
26 27 SATURDAY MAY 5 12:00 PM pc Carry Greenham Home Curated by Astra Taylor Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson, UK, 1983, 69 mins
In May of 1982, one of the very first occupy movements began quite humbly outside the perimeter fence of the US Army base in Berkshire, England. 250 women arrived to protest the installation of cruise missiles, some 34 were arrested. Less than a year later some 30,000 women ringed the facility and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was born. Filmmakers Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson went to have a look and ended up staying for seven months. The result was the remarkable documentary called Carry Greenham Home. Since that time, occupy movements, nonviolent protests, and civil disobedience campaigns have circled the globe, employing the same tactics employed by the indomitable women of Greenham Common. The means to make change—putting fragile human bodies on the line, demanding a different type of world—continue from Tahrir Square to Wall Street. – DW
SATURDAY MAY 5 12:00 PM VT Smokin’ Fish Luke Griswold-Tergis and Cory Mann, USA, 2011, 82 mins Family and culture combine to poignant and frequently hilarious effect as Tlingit businessman Cory Mann finds his way from selling underpants in China to smoking fish at his family’s traditional fish camp. Against the stunning backdrop of Alaska, Cory rediscovers his cultural roots, dodging grizzly bears, fishing with his adorable nephew, and crashing his canoe into tree branches occasionally. At fish camp, time moves differently, as Cory explains: “All the world is alive… the past, present, and future are all the same.” It’s a sentiment echoed by his Aunt Sally, who says, “Sure, it’s good to have television and computers and the like. But... your television, you can’t eat it and neither can you eat your computer. There’s nothing delicious about it!” The woman has a point. The smoked salmon that Cory makes is entirely another matter. This is warmth, love, and family in flaming red fish form—food for the soul, in other words. –DW
SATURDAY MAY 5 2:00 PM pc All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert Vivian Ducat, USA, 2011, 78 mins A sweeping chronicle of everyday African-American life, All Me examines the days of the segregated South through the autobiographical leather paintings of Winfred Rembert. Painstakingly carved, tooled, and dyed, the colourfully and compositionally stunning works are a testament to Rembert’s early memories of growing up in the town of Cuthbert, Georgia, everything from toiling in the cotton fields to being unjustly incarcerated and forced to work on a chain gang. As one art curator explains, an entire narrative of racial bigotry and rampant subjugation emerges painfully onto the leather, one that reads as “totally authentic.” Vivian Ducat’s film is equal parts art film, personal biography, and historical document, carving an inspiring portrait of a man whose art offers a humane and tactile glimpse into the American experience. –JM
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30 31 SATURDAY MAY 5 4:00 PM VT One Step at a Time: Shorts Program Congratulations to the Whether you’re two or eighty-two, life is about change. Stephanian DOXA Kalli Anderson and Zachary Finkelstein, Canada, 2011, 9 mins Film Festival! For fifty years—seven days a week—Mathilde and her pharmacist husband Barkev ran one of Toronto’s last family-owned corner pharmacies. Despite her husband’s recent passing, Mathilde keeps the family’s pride and joy alive, reinventing the pharmacy as an eclectic knick-knack Libby Davies, M.P. - Vancouver East shop. –JM Community Office: 2412 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V5T 3E2 Tel: 604-775-5800 Email: [email protected] Web: www.libbydavies.ca The Quiet One Emelie Wallgren and Ina Holmqvist, Sweden, 2011, 29 mins When six-year-old Maryam moves from Iran to Sweden to begin a new life, the pain and joy of the immigrant experience is brought home. Sometimes it’s the littlest things that sting the most, from not understanding the idea of Christmas presents, to bullying and exclusion. Still, Maryam soldiers on, finding her place in a bewildering new world, one small step at a time. –DW
Mine Mine Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Denmark, 2011, 25 mins The sole guardian of the household’s Lego, and keeper of mom’s undivided attention, an inquisitive-eyed two-year-old, Storm, is about to become a big brother. With intimacy and much empathetic humour, Kaspar Astrup Schröder takes Storm’s unique toddler perspective—rife with moral growing pains—in the moments leading up to his baby brother’s arrival. Words like “share” casually enter into the picture—taken in resistant Before documentary films... Since 1980 Reel West has proudly stride by this endearing little boy who, for all practical purposes, never ‘ promoted and supported the film, saw this day coming. –JM video, internet and digital production industries in Western Canada.
Every issue of Reel West’s annual digest and award-winning magazine SATURDAY MAY 5 6:00 PM PC How to Start a Revolution features the people and events that Ruaridh Arrow, UK, 2011, 87 mins shape our industry. The Definitive Producing Workbook Half a world away from Tahrir Square, an octogenarian from Boston tends to his orchids and struggles to make sense of the “interwebs”. His For the producer, the world of independent film and television name is Gene Sharp and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for production is often surrounded by a sea of paperwork. The the world’s dictators, his ideas about nonviolent revolution make him contracts, documents and requirements of agencies are just that. In 1993, Sharp self-published his manifesto From Dictatorship constantly in flux. Nothing is definitive, every contract has its own set of particulars and every deal is different. "Boilerplate" to Democracy, a 198-step guide to toppling dictators. Sharp and his Curt Lang, 1710 Commercial Drive as it was in 1972 agreements are open to negotiation. Rules can be flexible. eclectic group of disciples chronicle how his methods of direct action and civil disobedience have shaped democratic struggles throughout there were documentary photographs The PW4 will help guide a producer through some of the Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, Indonesia, Burma, Iran and overwhelming volume of documents involved in the world of Syria. Supported by archival footage from four decades of popular independent film and television production. Legal writers review Curt Lang: Vancouver 1972 the standard clauses and reveal issues of concern to producers uprisings, How to Start a Revolution shows how one man’s thinking has Simon Fraser University Teck Gallery • March 15 – July 13 negotiating contracts. Many sample agreements are included for undermined tyrannical regimes and contributed to the liberation of reference. The book provides a comprehensive overview of millions of people. –TW national and provincial funding bodies and engaging stories Simon Fraser University Gallery and words of wisdom by seasoned producers. major Partner To advertise call 1-888-291-7335 Order your copy today: 778-782-4266 | [email protected] | sfu.ca/gallery or visit www.reelwest.com SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hasting | Open daily during campus hours 604-685-1152 [email protected] 32 33 SATURDAY MAY 5 6:00 PM VT Scarlet Road Catherine Scott, Australia, 2011, 72 mins Rachel Wotton is not your typical sex worker. Catherine Scott’s doc is one to change your perspective on the much-maligned sex trade. An advocate for the legalization and de-stigmatization of the sex trade, Rachel works with a large client base in the disabled community and is a graduate student to boot. She’s a social revolutionary, and her message of progressive compassion is very convincing. The film is both intimate With an annual roster of over and political, following Rachel at school, advocating in public on behalf of her profession, and, most movingly, with her many disabled clients. 100 documentary films, Scarlet Road shows Rachel performing acts of radical compassion and VIFF is internationally recognized as one of poignant intimacy. The film has a warm, easy manner in some scenes the world’s largest and most successful and a searing physical honesty in others. A cogent political statement on showcases of nonfiction cinema in a desire and the injustice of sexual restriction, this remarkable film takes general festival context. Combined with JUSTICE us to the place where those areas meet, and shows that it’s ultimately a FORUM beautiful and hopeful place. –MA the strong year-round programming at the Vancity Theatre, VIFF gives doc lovers something to be happy about all year. SCREENING Partner
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34 35 SATURDAY MAY 5 9:00 PM pc The Prophet Gary Tarn, UK, 2011, 65 mins “A seeker of silences am I,” begins a clairvoyant Al-Mustafa in Kahlil Gibran’s beloved classic The Prophet, “and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?” Director Gary Tarn, in the wayfarer tradition of Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, layers the story with sensuous images from his solo travels to Serbia, Lebanon, New York, Italy, and Taiwan. Gibran’s fictitious city of Orphalese is reinvented as a 21st-century anywhere. Tarn finds in the minutiae of everyday life both wondrous beauty and human universality. –JM
Preceded by Yearning Waleed Nesyif, Canada, 2011, 10 mins A carefully observed fragment of the ravages of conflict enacted on ordinary Iraqi people, Waleed Nesyif’s startling film combines images and words into a visceral call for peace. [Warning: Graphic Content] –DW
SATURDAY MAY 5 9:00 PM VT A Fierce Green Fire Mark Kitchell, USA, 2011, 120 mins In the words of environmental justice advocate Bob Bullard: “There’s no Hispanic air. There’s no African-American air. There’s air! And if you breathe air—and most people I know do breathe air... then I would consider you an environmentalist.” Director Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties) takes an equally expansive approach in his survey of the environmental movement. Inspired by Philip Shabecoff’s book of the same title, A Fierce Green Fire examines the greatest battles fought and won over the last century—from David Brower and the Sierra Club, to the Love Canal residents’ struggle against toxic dumping, to Greenpeace activists putting their bodies between whaling harpoons and their prey. Interviews with Paul Watson, Bill McKibben, and just about every rabble- rouser, activist, and firebrand on the planet lends a magisterial heft. This glorious stretch of a film is a celebration, a cri de coeur, and a call to arms. Many battles have been fought and won, but the war rages on. –DW
SUNDAY MAY 6 11:00 AM pc King–A Filmed Record; Montgomery to Memphis Ely Landau and Richard Kaplan, USA, 1970, 180 mins He was one of the great figures of the 20th century. He spoke truth to power with a conviction and an ardour that has never been matched. Martin Luther King is now a mythic figure, a symbol of social justice, and a model of subversive tactics. Here is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see him in action. King is a precious film document of the man’s speeches and other media exposure, covering the key period of his political activity. It takes us beyond the sound bites and official media history to the political and moral core of the man—his passion and, most importantly, his ideas. This invaluable record also features stirring readings of his words from actors like Paul Newman and James Earl Jones. A social document of the utmost importance and likely the most quotable movie of the year, King is not to be missed. –MA Please note: Screening will include a brief intermission
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SUNDAY MAY 6 12:00 PM VT Ivan & Ivana Jeff Silva, USA, 2011, 80 mins
When the Kosovo war devastates a young couple’s homeland, Ivan and Ivana set out for sunny California, where they hope to sink their Serbian teeth into the American Dream. As soon as their feet hit the sand, the blond and bronzed Ivana learns the ins and outs of flipping houses, while her charismatic counterpart Ivan dabbles in the convertible trade. Six years later, the pair appears content in their sun-kissed promised land. Unfortunately, the housing bubble is about to burst, and turbulent economic and personal tides are rolling in. The couple’s filmmaking friend, Jeff Silva, records their off-Hollywood tale over a ten-year period. With Studio Stage such a strong narrative arc to work with, Silva grants his protagonists some privacy and eschews the obvious and intimate drama. Instead, he highlights the intense emotional space that occurs immediately before and after climactic moments. The result is a riveting account of the American immigrant experience. –TW
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SUNDAY MAY 6 2:00 PM VT Imagining Emanuel Thomas A Østbye, Norway, 2011, 52 mins “To be rooted,” French philosopher Simone Weil said, “is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Meet Emanuel Agara in Imagining Emanuel, a stateless asylum seeker who, in 2003, arrived in Norway having hidden as a stowaway in the rudder of a giant cargo ship. He is immediately subjected to circuitous bureaucratic examination at a deportation facility. Filmmaker Thomas Østbye provides an unnerving look at the tumults of a refugee claimant and a life continually deferred. Treating even his own camera as suspect, Østbye is cleverly self-interrogative, providing a humane platform for Emanuel while allowing for ambiguity and contrasting viewpoints—leaving it ultimately to the viewer to cull from the fragments and form their own image of Emanuel. –JM JUSTICE FORUM Preceded by The City Gonzalo Ballester, Spain, 2011, 14 mins After the charm of living in Spain fades, a Moroccan immigrant finds himself suddenly estranged and overwhelmed by an inner longing for the “distant things” he left behind. –JM
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SUNDAY MAY 6 4:30 PM VT Water Children Aliona van der Horst, The Netherlands, 2011, 75 mins In a remote Japanese farming community, where few of the residents have ever set foot in a museum, multidisciplinary artist Tomoko Mukaiyama builds a massive installation on the theme of menstruation. Villagers are invited to roam freely in the cathedral-like space made of 12,000 white silk dresses. While some publicly mock the project, a surprising number SOCAN_DOXAFilmFestival2012_pressready.pdf 1 2/21/12 8:36 PM seize the opportunity to penetrate a taboo topic. Occasionally whimsical but always heartfelt, women voice their innermost thoughts on sexuality, motherhood, fertility, and menopause. Knowing that some aspects of life are difficult to express in words, filmmaker Aliona van der Horst observes ancient rituals and sacred monuments in Japan that convey deeper cultural beliefs about miscarriages and infant mortality. Mukaiyama, who is also an accomplished pianist, underscores the film with an adaption of
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Nasr, Canada Jessica Yu, USA The Cooking Show (p 71) David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, USA Bear 71 (p 23) with Falgoosh: Blames & Flames Elaine Carol, Canada Leanne Allison, Jeremy Mendes 6:00 PM | PC Mohammadreza Farzad, Iran 8:30 PM | PC 4:00 PM | VT & NFB Digital Studio, Canada Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (p 45) The Reluctant Revolutionary (p 65) 2:30 PM | PC The Tiniest Place (p 82) Followed by Opening Night Party Fredrik Gertten, Sweden 5:30 PM | Subeez Sean McAllister, UK/Ireland The Law in These Parts (p 73) Tatiana Huezo, Mexico The Philosophers’ Café (p 14) Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 6:30 PM | VT To Do No Harm: Documentaries on Drugs 9:00 PM | VT Occupied PalestinE 7:00 PM | GR7 SATURDAY MAY 5 Do You Really Want to Know? (p 47) Free discussion forum The Miners’ Hymns (p 65) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (p 25) John Zaritsky, Canada Bill Morrison, USA/UK 5:00 PM | PC Alison Klayman, USA 12:00 PM | PC 6:00 PM | PC with Kirkcaldy Man, Julian Schwanitz, UK Renaissance Man (p 73) Carry Greenham Home (p 29) 8:30 PM | VT Sex Crimes Unit (p 53) Evan Crowe, Kai Nagata & Candice Vallantin, Beeban Kidron & Amanda Richardson, UK Nuclear Savage (p 47) Lisa F. Jackson, USA 9:15 PM | GR7 Canada Adam Jonas Horowitz, USA with You Have the Right to an Attorney Marina Abromović: The Artist Is Present (p 65) Free Screening and Presentation SUNDAY MAY 13 12:00 PM | VT Matthew Bockelman, USA Matthew Akers, USA Smokin’ Fish (p 29) 9:00 PM | PC 6:30 PM | PC TBA – There will be repeat screenings of Luke Griswold-Tergis & Cory Mann, USA Crulic – The Path to Beyond (p 49) 7:00 PM | VT ¡Vivan las Antipodas! (p 74) films that sell out during the festival. Check Anca Damian, Romania/Poland Coast Modern (p 55) THURSDAY MAY 10 Victor Kossakovsky, Argentina/Germany/Chile/ www.doxafestival.ca for the latest updates. 2:00 PM | PC Michael Bernard & Gavin Froome, Canada The Netherlands All Me: The Life and Times of with Three Walls, Zaheed Mawani, Canada 10 AM-9 PM | Roundhouse PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Winfred Rembert (p 29) MONDAY MAY 7 Bear 71 (p 23) 6:30 PM | VT Vivian Ducat, USA 7:00 PM | Denman Free Interactive Installation Just Beyond Hope (p 74) 1:00 PM | PC Vinylmania: When Life Runs Pia Massie, Canada 2:00 PM | VT Salaam Dunk (p 49) at 33 Revolutions per Minute (p 55) 1:00 PM | PC Mostar Round-Trip (p 31) David Fine, Iraq/USA Paolo Campana, Italy Vanishing Point (p 67) 7:00 PM | GR7 David Fisher, Israel with The Little Team Stephen A. Smith & Julia Szucs, Canada Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (p 75) rated Y Roger Gómez & Dani Resines, Spain 9:00 PM | PC Jesse Vile, USA/UK MAKING for 4:00 PM | PC Get Your Groove On: Shorts Program (p 57) 1:30 PM–5:00 PM | Roundhouse WAVES Youth Italy: Love It, or Leave It (p 31) 5:00 PM | PC Yodeling Farmer / Honky Tonk Ben / Making Waves (p 13) 8:00 PM | VT Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi, Germany/Italy Patron Saints (p 49) Smoke Songs / Extase Free Panels and Workshops Kinder (p 75) Melanie Shatzky & Brian M. 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(p 63) Slice of Life: Shorts Program (p 81) Thomas A Østbye, Norway Ross Ashcroft, UK Rosie Dransfeld, Canada Yuban (Live Earth) / TICKETS + INFO with The City, Gonzalo Ballester, Spain FRIDAY MAY 11 Mistura: The Power of Food / 3:45 PM | PC 7:00 PM | VT www.doxafestival.ca 4:00 PM | PC The Substance – The Philosophers’ Café (p 14) 10 AM-9 PM | Roundhouse 2:00 PM | VT Meanwhile in Mamelodi (p 41) Albert Hofmann’s LSD (p 53) Home Movies: Family on Film Bear 71 (p 23) The Lifeguard (p 82) 42 / DOXAfestival Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Germany/South Africa Martin Witz, Switzerland/Germany Free discussion forum Free Interactive Installation Maite Alberdi, Chile 43 Meet us in the Ore Lounge SUNDAY MAY 6 6:00 PM pc Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Fredrik Gertten, Sweden, 2011, 87 mins In 2009, Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten released the documentary Bananas!*, exposing the world to the horrible conditions of Nicaraguan plantation workers. Now, he brings us the sequel Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, a film that “irrefutably” exposes DOLE for what it is—a very bad corporate apple—presenting a scathing review of how far a corporation will go to protect its image. Using dirty tricks, financial threats, and media manipulation, it seems that DOLE will stop at nothing to keep audiences from seeing Gertten’s original film. As the company’s PR firm puts it: “It’s easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation.” What the big yellow bully doesn’t realize is that Gertten has been recording the whole time, and along the way he shifted focus; now it’s about freedom of speech and, specifically, the right for little people to take big bites out JUSTICE of the multinational’s ego. –TW FORUM Subeez major Partner CAFE • RESTAURANT • BAR
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SUNDAY MAY 6 8:30 PM VT Nuclear Savage Adam Jonas Horowitz, USA, 2011, 87 mins Twenty years after he helped to evacuate the people of the Marshall Islands with the crew onboard Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior, filmmaker and activist Adam Jonas Horowitz returned to discover an astounding cover-up. Beginning in the early 1950s, the American military used the Islands, and the people who lived there, as an open-air laboratory to discover what effects nuclear radiation had on human populations. A series of nuclear tests were undertaken, including the infamous Bravo hydrogen bomb, which was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The result was cancer, horrendous birth defects, and a people decimated by disease and despair. –DW Nuclear Savage opens up one of the hidden horrors of American history— analogous to our history of slavery, lynching and Jim Crow—but perpetrated on the far side of the world, with nuclear weapons. -The Huffington Post
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46 47 SUNDAY MAY 6 9:00 PM pc Crulic—The Path to Beyond Anca Damian, Romania/Poland, 2011, 73 mins In the tradition of films like Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir and David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn’s Slaves comes this animated tour de force. Director Anca Damian uses animated imagery not only as a device to carry the story, but also, more importantly, as a vehicle to give voice to emotion and suffering that would be unbearable in any other form. Never was pain and agony more beautifully rendered. The story of Claudiu Crulic’s life and death begins in reverse, when his mother and half-sister fail to recognize his body during the post-mortem repatriation. How this feckless young man ended up little more than a wizened husk unfolds in Crulic’s own words (given voice by Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov). Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Crulic died on a hunger strike, caught up in a Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice so bizarre it beggars description. –DW
MONDAY MAY 7 1:00 PM PC Salaam Dunk David Fine, Iraq/USA, 2011, 82 mins In David Fine’s life-affirming portrait of an all-female Iraqi basketball team Arabs, Kurds, Christians, Shiites, and Sunnis struggle together on the b-ball court, united for teamwork’s sake in a nation torn asunder by war and conflict. The team, all students at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani in Kurdistan, have never engaged in sports, let alone dribbled a basketball. It’s an uphill battle from the get-go, yet their tenacity, aided by Salaam Dunk’s upbeat Kurdish score and the support of their American coach, roars with spirit and pride. –JM P R O U D A business cards Preceded by The Little Team Roger Gómez and Dani Resines, Spain, 2011, 10 mins
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Preceded by Kiss the Paper 2012 Fiona Otway, USA, 2011, 19 mins WORLD Alan Runfeldt has run a unique letterpress print shop for fifty years, PREMIERE persevering with a working man’s devotion despite changing, digital times. -JM
MONDAY MAY 7 7:00 PM PC General Orders No. 9 We are proudly local Robert Persons, USA, 2011, 72 mins Some eleven years in the making, Robert Persons’ mesmerizing film and are committed to essay has drawn comparisons to the work of Terrence Malick. It is an delivering the best easy correlative to draw, but Person’s visionary film has a rare spirit and ravishing beauty all its own. Part ode to a vanishing culture, part prose customer service to poem, and possessing an almost religious devotion to the holy beauty of the Greater Vancouver the planet, General Orders No. 9, breaks with conventional documentary community. form to tread new ground. –DW Mac Station specializes Preceded by Orbis Minor in Apple Sales, Service, Zach Kienitz, USA, 2010, 14 mins Training, Rentals and In this meditative investigation into the disconnect between the current . generation and the natural world, grace is in the details, whether it’s Trade-ins a strip of grass alongside the freeway, or the interpolation of invisible narrators offering commentary. –DW
MONDAY MAY 7 7:00 PM VT Tahrir—Liberation Square Stefano Savona, Italy/France, 2011, 90 mins Beginning on the 25th of January 2011, thousands of people organized a massive social movement that changed history. But what does revolution really sound, feel, and look like? Stefano Savona answers that question definitively with his revelatory new work. With no interpolation, the film propels audiences right into the middle of Tahrir Square as the Egyptian people demand change through concerted and collective action. From scenes of combatants breaking up paving stones to make projectiles, to www.macstation.com passionate ebullient discussions that run throughout the night—this is documentary in the raw, pure and unfettered. In the words of the director, “Only cinema and documentaries can capture those moments in which freedom appears in its pure state: a sense of completeness that nestles in conversations, in the relationships that are being forged with others
JUSTICE by the strength of words.” The jubilation that greets the resignation of YOUR APPLE FORUM Mubarak needs no words at all, only sound and image, surging, chaotic, SOLUTIONS EXPERTS and singing with joy. –DW 50 Vancouver • Burnaby • Abbotsford 51 MONDAY MAY 7 9:00 PM pc The Strawberry Tree TUESDAY MAY 8 3:45 PM pc The Substance–Albert Hofmann’s LSD Simone Rapisarda Casanova, Canada, 2011, 71 mins Martin Witz, Switzerland/Germany, 2011, 89 mins In a remote fishing village in Juan Antonio, Cuba, life unfolds in a leisurely In the spring of 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann made a mindboggling fashion. Here, goats and pigs roam with idiosyncratic spirit, kids play, discovery—just one drop changes everything! The Substance investigates women gossip, and old men grouch good-naturedly with each other. Hofmann’s troubled relationship with his “problem child”: LSD. Newly But talk of stormy weather and mean flashes of lightning just off the released archival footage reveals how the drug escaped from psychiatric horizon offsets the picturesque. The Strawberry Tree’s lush, pastel-hued wards in the 1960s and exploded onto Haight-Ashbury. It examines palette lends its images an otherworldly quality, carefully composed by how the US Army and the CIA attempted to co-opt LSD for their own director Simone Rapisarda Casanova, whose presence is made evident purposes. Images of American soldiers consumed with “comic laughter” throughout, as the villagers address him and his camera in frank and often help to explain why the military eventually abandoned the idea of LSD hilarious asides. Equal parts ethnography, documentary, and sumptuous as a weapon of war. Although Hofmann never stopped researching reverie—a time capsule of a less sullied, hurried time—The Stawberry his “miracle drug”, it pained him to see LSD degenerate into a mass Tree casts a curious spell. Finally, when this hamlet vanishes, razed to the consumer product that was later blacklisted by medical professionals. ground by Hurricane Ike, there is an intractable absence left, a lingering But in 2007—the year Hofmann turned 100 years old—LSD received
reminder of life in all its glorious and homely wonder. –JM CANADIAN Philo its second wind, when Switzerland’s Federal Agency for Health approved PREMIERE sophers’ the medicinal use of hallucinogenic substances. –TW CAFé
MONDAY MAY 7 9:00 PM VT United States of Africa TUESDAY MAY 8 5:00 PM VT The Boxing Girls of Kabul Yanick Létourneau, Canada, 2011, 75 mins Ariel J. Nasr, Canada, 2011, 52 mins Testifying to the power of music to stoke political consciousness, As the countdown to the Summer Olympic Games begins in earnest, United States of Africa follows African rapper Didier Awadi as he tours Ariel Nasr’s film takes on an especial poignancy. The girls here are 40 countries as part of a tribute to black leaders. Awadi is passionate, fighting not just for the greater glory of their country, but to change articulate, committed—and a great musician to boot. Through him, hip the very perception of women in Afghanistan. Not long ago, the stadium hop arrives at its 360-degree point, coming back to the continent from where the girls run laps and spar was the site of women being stoned which its pioneers were taken and redeeming the music they used to to death. As Afghanistan struggles out the dark days of the Taliban, the speak to that injustice. The film also outlines the tragic defeats of various struggle to change the minds of the Afghan people must be fought one African leaders who were thwarted in their progressive aims, often by family at a time. –DW Western powers. This documentary gives us a picture of the past and hope for the future, all through the lens of music and politics. More than Preceded by Falgoosh: Blames & Flames any genre except folk, rap has fused those two things; this is a stirring Mohammadreza Farzad, Iran, 2011, 28 mins example of that fusion and the power it can have. –MA A culture in the process of reinventing itself is the subject of this elegiac ode to Iran in the early days of its own cultural revolution, when movie theatres became a flashpoint for public rage. –DW
TUESDAY MAY 8 1:00 PM PC Four Horsemen TUESDAY MAY 8 6:00 PM PC Sex Crimes Unit Ross Ashcroft, UK, 2011, 97 mins Lisa F. Jackson, USA, 2011, 86 mins The “four horsemen” in Ross Ashcroft’s incendiary new film are an One of the first of its kind, the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan overextended and faltering financial system, escalating violence and District Attorney’s office changed the way that rape was prosecuted in conflict, grim poverty, and depletion of the earth’s natural resources. the US. Lisa F. Jackson’s revelatory documentary is on the ground and in This is the reality that subsequent generations are inheriting from their the trenches with the men and women whose job it is to prosecute and parents and grandparents. With wit and clarity, the film lays out how the convict rapists. –DW global economic system actually works. Everything, from the symptoms of empires in decline, to the function of fiat currency, to the ruination Preceded by You Have the Right to an Attorney of the banking system, is given close and thoughtful examination. What Matthew Bockelman, USA, 2011, 12 mins emerges is a precise and furious elucidation of the forces that control At The Bronx Defenders, criminal defence lawyers Matt and Scott fight us, all the more affecting for its carefully banked rage. Interviews daily for the rights of their clients in a system that has little consideration with cultural theorists, rogue economists, activists, politicians, and, of for the poor and the disenfranchised. –DW course, Noam Chomsky, offer up a cogent and sustained explanation rated Y CANADIAN for the current state of world affairs. A critically important primer, Four JUSTICE for PREMIERE Horsemen is necessary viewing for the generation about to inherit the FORUM Youth earth. –DW
52 53 TUESDAY MAY 8 7:00 PM VT Coast Modern Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome, Canada, 2012, 60 mins Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome’s exquisitely cool film glides through the sleek interiors, and lush gardens of some of Vancouver’s most stunning examples of modernist architecture. But these houses are not museums—they’re homes for families, real people, and the occasional hip hop mogul. In the words of Arthur Erikson: “Honesty was the rallying cry of early modernists and they reduced everything to absolute essentials.” The film traces the emergence of the modernist movement from its first incarnations in 1922 through to current day. Featuring interviews with architects and cultural critics, including a memorable turn from Douglas Coupland, Coast Modern pays particularly sharp attention to cultural values embodied in architectural form. –DW
WORLD filmmaker Preceded by Three Walls PREMIERE in person Zaheed Mawani, Canada, 2011, 25 mins From its inception in the late 1960s to its current ubiquity, the office cubicle has affected the lives of people who work within its three walls. -DW
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TUESDAY MAY 8 7:00 PM DENMAN Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute Paolo Campana, Italy, 2011, 75 mins In the age of iPods, SoundCloud and downloading, music mediums are changing at an alarming speed. But as tapes are an unlamented memory and the CD is going the way of the dodo, one format persists. Paolo Campana’s doc is an act of advocacy but, more than that, a celebration of the wonders of vinyl records. Travelling from Japan to London with many stops in between, the director brings us a motley crew of audiophiles. We hear their music, we listen to their infectious enthusiasm and we see their massive—and I mean massive—record collections. This is documentary set, and beautifully cut, to music, a movie that’ll have you nodding your head to the rhythm and looking askance at your MP3 player. Dig in the crates, learn about laser-controlled record players, soak up the sounds and see why the record will never die. Vinylmania is a funk-filled blast. –MA
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54 55 TUESDAY MAY 8 9:00 PM PC Get Your Groove On! Shorts Program A collection of films to make you get up, get down and get very funky. The Yodeling Farmer Mike Maryniuk and John Scoles, Canada, 2011, 6 mins This stop-motion mini-opus explores the life and music of Manitoba cowboy and yodeling legend, Stew Clayton. –TW
Honky Tonk Ben Ryan McKenna, Canada, 2011, 15 mins Some people make art cars, but Ben Cormier makes art pianos. Friends and family reminisce about Ben’s love of honky tonk music and his delightfully oddball pianos. –TW
Smoke Songs Briar March, USA, 2011, 20 mins Blackfire is a modern day, Native American punk-rock Partridge family, but there’s nothing bubblegum or polka dot about these siblings, or their sound. Smoke Songs is a rockumentary-come-family story-come political commentary about what it means to be an indigenous young person today. –TW
Extase Carine Bijlsma, The Netherlands, 2011, 35 mins 145 orchestra members, 200 singers, and 6 soloists come together to make one man’s dream a reality. In the beautifully shot film, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw faces the greatest challenge of his 50-year career. He takes on Arnold Schönberg’s monumental cantata Gurre-Leider, which was written for the biggest orchestra ever. –TW
TUESDAY MAY 8 9:00 PM VT The Castle Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Italy, 2011, 90 mins Milan’s Malpensa Airport is a strange place. Sometimes it’s overrun with the bustle of humanity. Other times it’s a ghost structure, empty except for a few souls—people lonesome amidst the vast terminals and empty corridors of the airport in the off-season. The airport is a place of arriv- als and escape, commerce and crime, movement and brutal restriction. In this film we see it all: hopeful entries, desperate escapes, and much more. The camera is always still, always at a measured remove, taking in pieces of a large puzzle one at a time. The human activity is eerily familiar, but the director does what so much great modern art does: he makes it strange. The Castle shows us things we take for granted, in a context that our individual perspectives miss: the wider settings of architecture, bureaucracy, and capitalism that dwarf and confine us. Here is a film that really takes the blinders off. –MA
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56 57 ALL THE BEST FOR THE ALL THE BEST FOR THE ALL THE BEST FOR THE TUESDAY MAY 8 9:00 PM DENMAN Vito Jeffrey Schwarz, USA, 2011, 93 mins 2012 DOXA DOCUMENTARY Cinephile, dedicated activist, and bona fide bon vivant, Vito Russo was, as they say, larger than life—and here is the movie to give him his due. 2021021 2D DOOXXAA D DOOCCUUMMENENTTAARRYY Russo was defined from the start by his passion for movies, men, and self-assertion. Responding to the oppression of his kind, he went on to FILM FESTIVAL pioneer the study of queer representation in cinema and help initiate FILM FESTIVAL LGBT activism in America. It’s all here: the seminal Stonewall uprising FILM FESTIVAL in New York, the pleasure-giddy 1970s, the horrors and courage of the struggle against AIDS. And the film is an eye-opener for the casual moviegoer, unearthing decades of queers on the silver screen in contexts that range from the celebratory to the tragic. In Vito, the political and the personal meet through the life of a man who dared to bridge them. It’s a triumphant portrait of a truly beautiful man. –MA
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WEDNESDAY MAY 9 1:00 PM PC LoveMEATender Manu Coeman, Belgium, 2010, 52 mins What’s the price of the pleasure most of us take for granted every day? This doc gives us a clear answer, and it’s not pretty. Meat consumption is one of the major factors in climate change: behind every sticky cold cut, every juicy steak, every McDonald’s hamburger is a small contribution to a big problem. LoveMEATender is an engaging and surprisingly upbeat look at an industry out of whack. Tracing the history of our culinary habits, outlining the disastrous rise of corn-fed cattle, and breaking down the science of our meat addiction, the movie lays out a sober case with surprising cheer. The facts here are so damning that there’s no need to preach: in a situation as dire as this, simple education is activism. The film is chock full of statistics, tables, and graphics, but this is no square screed—it’s a fun, optimistic call for change. –MA rated Y for Youth Preceded by Murder Mouth Madeleine Parry, Australia, 2011, 17 mins STEVE ROBERTSON “If I can’t kill it, I won’t eat it,” decides Madeleine, a gentle 21-year-old STEVE ROBERTSON Greek girl, whose souvlaki-eating days hang in the balance. Her adorable 355 Burrard Street, SuiteST 1900EVE, RVancouver,OBERTS ONBC V6C 2G8 (604) 682–7737 great grandmother and other colourful characters offer Maddie advice 355 Burrard Street, Suite 1900, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G8 (604) 682–7737 as she embarks on her killing journey—from broccoli to fish, chicken to 355 Burrard Street, Suite 1900, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G8 (604) 682–7737 sheep. –JM wwwww.wgo.goodomdmansans.c.aca 58 www.goodmans.ca 59 WEDNESDAY MAY 9 4:00 PM PC Staff Entrance (Entrée du Personnel) Manuela Frésil, France, 2011, 59 mins NATHEN Both hypnotizing and shocking, Manuela Frésil’s film takes a long, hard look at the cost of our meat consumption through those who package the goods. Beautiful in its compositions, trance-like in its shot durations, appalling in the repetition it depicts, Staff Entrance does two things simultaneously: it puts us in the position of the meat processors and gives us a lucid distance with which to behold their work. This is one of the PRINTING great movies about work, not only the experience of it, but its effect on the people who do it. We hear from those people about their hopes, their frustrations and their travails. Here is a movie to erase the mediation between the food we obliviously enjoy and the terrible mechanics of its production. It’s a powerful revelation, one equally political and sensory. –MA 1/2 JUSTICE FORUM Preceded by Machine Man Roser Corella and Alfonso Moral, Spain, 2011, 15 mins In Dhaka, Bangladesh, manual labour has erased the difference between man and machine. The work of making bricks, separating recyclables, and breaking apart ships turns men and women into an engine of SPONSOR globalization. –DW
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WEDNESDAY MAY 9 5:00 PM VT Photographic Memory Ross McElwee, USA, 2011, 84 mins What’s a father to do when his son is battling the advanced stages of adolescence? This is the conundrum that Ross McElwee faces in Photographic Memory. As Ross sees it, his son Adrian is wasting his potential. When he’s not immersed in virtual worlds, he spends his days partaking in adrenaline sports and smoking too much pot—often at the same time. As Adrian sees it, multitasking comes natural to his generation and he wonders why life shouldn’t be “a complete video game or acid trip if you can make it that way.” Hoping to better understand the young man’s state of mind, Ross hops on a plane to France, where he spent his early 20s travelling around in a dilapidated Volkswagen. He tracks down people who knew him 38 years ago, when he was the same age as his son; through their eyes, Ross comes to see that he and Adrian are not so Philo sophers’ different after all. –TW CAFé
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American Juggalos Sean Dunne, USA, 2011, 23 mins van Terminal Bar Stefan Nadelman, USA, 2003, 23 mins Heavy Metal Parking Lot John Heyn and Jeff Krulik, USA, 1986, 17 mins
cou This idiosyncratic collection of films captures the human need for unholy communion. Sean Dunne’s American Juggalos, a Malickesque ode to the fans and the followers of the Insane Clown Posse, possesses a singular poetry and deep and abiding affection for this new American tribe. The ver Juggalos inherited the mantle of party animals from the original rock ‘n’ roll wastoids in the legendary Heavy Metal Parking Lot. But no one gets as OPERA gritty as the hardcore alcoholics of New York City’s raunchy and rancid glory days immortalized in Terminal Bar. –DW
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The Pirates of Penzance WEDNESDAY MAY 9 7:00 PM VT Who Cares? Rosie Dransfeld, Canada, 2012, 76 mins The Magic Flute Prostitutes in Canada are classified as “a high risk of homicide group.” As a result, sex trade workers in Edmonton are cooperating with local police and volunteering samples of their own DNA. The goal is to create Tea: A Mirror of Soul a database that will expedite the identification of bodies of murdered and missing women. Structured around the RCMP’s Project KARE, woman after woman enters the mobile police unit’s SUV. Once inside, she is asked to provide a sample of hair and some next-of-kin information. Aware that her next date might be her last, she usually obliges. The officer explains that she’s doing a good thing; her family will have some closure with a positive identification. The level of despair in their exchange is palpable. Rosie Dransfeld’s remarkable street-level documentary demands that viewers check their apathy at the door and start caring MAKING about the precarious existence of sex trade workers in this country. –TW WAVES
WEDNESDAY MAY 9 7:00 PM GR7 Last Call at the Oasis Jessica Yu, USA, 2011, 105 mins “No water, no life,” is the point that Jessica Yu’s new film makes in a global jaunt from Australia to Las Vegas. For a film that is essentially another nail in the coffin of human society, Last Call is a surprisingly upbeat affair. Interspersed with peppy tunes are interviews with some of the world’s foremost water experts, including Robert Glennon (author of Unquenchable) and hydrologist Jay Famiglietti, who eloquently sums up the fate of humanity in two words: “We’re screwed.” You can’t say we didn’t have it coming; from fracking to golf courses, human beings have wasted water with wild abandon. Such wantonness comes with a heavy price tag, as the amount of potable water is vanishing at an astounding rate. –DW A sobering but somehow upbeat examination of the looming catastrophic global water shortage… a look at the Earth’s most precious, and perhaps most endangered, commodity. –Variety
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VO 12-13 DOXA full page colour final.indd 1 12-03-08 2:56 PM 4K/ 2K & HD Colour Correction Suites WEDNESDAY MAY 9 8:30 PM PC The Reluctant Revolutionary Avid DS/ DaVinci Resolve & Assimilate Scratch Sean McAllister, UK/Ireland, 2012, 69 mins The personal and the political take on startling new relevance in director Sean McAllister’s revelatory new film about a struggling Yemeni tour Sony F3 /ARRI / RED Cam Workflow guide. Kais is trying to keep his travel agency and tourist hotel afloat in the midst of a revolution. Wry, articulate to a fault, and deeply ambivalent about the forces overtaking his country, Kais makes for the most human of guides. Forced to cut one of his tours short due to gunfire and rocket attacks, he returns to Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, only to find it occupied by rival camps of pro-government and anti-president factions. His gradual conversion to the revolutionary side comes slowly, but the possibility of peace is impossible to deny. –DW Mastered over A breathless pace, a sense of black humor and a great central character make The Reluctant Revolutionary one of the most immediate 12 Film & and accessible descriptions of the Arab Spring yet to emerge. –The Documentary Hollywood Reporter Projects in 2011
WEDNESDAY MAY 9 9:15 PM GR7 Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present Matthew Akers, USA, 2011, 105 mins Marina Abramović is perhaps the godmother of performance art. Beginning with her bodywork in the 1970s, she forged a new means of making and presenting art in a series of searing performances that often placed her personal safety on the line. Violence, sexuality, and the physical limits of the human body were on explicit display. Matthew Akers’ film portrait captures the artist at work during the production of her 2010 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The Artist is Present is also the title of the performance presented at MoMA in which Abramović sat stationary in the museum’s atrium from March 14 to May 31, 2010, receiving silent visitations from anyone for any length of time. Based on Nightsea Crossing, one of her earlier works undertaken with partner/lover Ulay, the new work earned the title of longest performance piece. This remarkable documentary literally forces a reconception of the limits of art. –DW
Winner, Panorama Audience Award, 2012 Berlin Film Festival
WEDNESDAY MAY 9 9:00 PM Vt The Miners’ Hymns Bill Morrison, USA/UK, 2011, 52 mins County Durham, on England’s Northeast coast, was once home to hundreds of colleries and the men who mined them. Scenes of union parades are interspersed with sumptuous black-and-white footage of men hard at work in places like Akleyheads Pit or Yew Tree Drift, names that belie the gritty, dirty reality of coal mining. Director Bill Morrison (Decasia) uncovers this vanished industrial world. -DW
Preceded by Kirkcaldy Man State-of-the-Art Mobile D.I. Truck Available Julian Schwanitz, UK, 2011, 17 mins with RED Transcoding, Theatre & Satellite Dailies Delivery Once the toast of the industrial town of Kirkcaldy, Jocky Wilson’s moment of fame came at the darts board when he was crowned world champion in 1982 and 1989. Director Julian Schwanitz goes in search of this mythic figure. -DW
64 65 THURSDAY MAY 10 1:00 PM PC Vanishing Point Stephen A. Smith and Julia Szucs, Canada, 2012, 81 mins “As the world melts under our feet, we must find the best way for our journey,” narrates Navarana, an elder from Uummannaq—the most northern and isolated district of Greenland. Rising temperatures and dwindling populations are transforming the land her ancestors have called home for thousands of years. The film follows Navarana as she travels from Greenland to Baffin Island to connect with distant relatives. While on a narwhal hunt, she’s bewildered by her Canadian cousins, who have replaced kayaks with motorboats and harpoons with guns. To her amazement, her relatives have never tasted the most succulent part of the whale—its intestine! Surrounded by the vast and quiet beauty of the far North, Navarana’s reflexive journey reminds us that preserving the past out of habit or “tradition” misses the point, and that sometimes the
WORLD rated Y “old way” of doing something just makes good sense. –SC PREMIERE for Youth
THURSDAY MAY 10 3:45 PM PC An Encounter with Simone Weil Julia Haslett, USA, 2010, 85 mins “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” These words, written by Simone Weil—French philosopher, social activist, and eccentric introvert—provide the engrossing entry point into An Encounter with Simone Weil, Julia Haslett’s exploration of moral responsibility within her own less-than-picture-perfect family. Nobel Prize recipient Albert Camus once described Weil as “the only great spirit of our time,” and Haslett’s own struggles with suffering—her father took his life when she was just seventeen, and her brother Timothy battles a crippling depression —are mediated and shaped by the experiences of Weil herself. –JM Julia Haslett has made a profound and moving film on a woman who continues to speak to all of us… An Encounter with Simone Weil challenges all of us not to look the other way when we see the suffering of others. CANADIAN Philo PREMIERE sophers’ Julia’s personal journey through the film is both heartbreaking and inspiring. CAFé –Michael Moore
THURSDAY MAY 10 5:00 PM Vt The Fallacy (L’Imposture) Ève Lamont, Canada, 2010, 93 mins The reality of sex work is hard, ugly, and often deadly. Director Ève Lamont (Squat, Pas de pays sans paysans) pulls no punches in her film about the women who are actively trying to leave the sex trade. Lamont, with help from anthropologist Rose Dufour, makes a cogent and impassioned argument for the abolition of prostitution. For women who come from abusive families and relationships, sex work seems to initially offer a means of escape. But the act of selling sex is never a simple transaction. As Dufour says, “prostitution is not a trade, the bodies of women are not commodities that can be exchanged for money. Prostitution is sexual exploitation of women and violence against women.” The power of the film lies in the stories of the individual women profiled, who speak with painful and blunt honesty, reclaiming their humanity with stunning MAKING courage. –DW WAVES
66 67 THURSDAY MAY 10 6:00 PM PC Keepsakes: Shorts Program This collection of three remarkable short films charts the intermingling of familial and cultural history with a decidedly sexy touch! –DW
Share your vision. The Photographer’s Wife DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause, Germany, 2011, 29 mins An impassioned excavation of Eugen Gerbert’s personal photo archive: Langara’s Documentary Film Production Certificate mostly elegant pictures of Gerti—his wife, muse, and “life’s fulfillment”— is an established and intensive 16-week professional during their innumerable sun-soaked holidays to the Dolomites, Italy, Paris training program for emerging filmmakers interested and elsewhere across the span of 40 years. The amorous photographs, in non-fiction storytelling. Perform research, write bringing with them a tidal wave of bittersweet reminiscences, are intercut proposals, direct, produce, shoot, edit, and market with interviews with Gerti and are overlaid with extracts from Eugen’s your films. Pitch your ideas to industry professionals and receive mentorship through a production house diary. –JM process. Our award-winning graduates work in all areas of documentary production. The maximum Chronicle of Oldřich S. intake for this program is nine students. Rudolf Šmíd, Czech Republic, 2011, 18 mins
Apply now. Start September. Oldřich S., “a chronicler of body and soul,” jotted one-sentence entries—the important event of the day—in his diary from 1981 to Learn more. 2005. Everything from food fights (started by grannies) to bizarre village Contact Annat Kennet murders are here put to zany animation. –JM 604.323.5561 | [email protected] www.langara.bc.ca/docfilm The Man That Got Away Trevor Anderson, Canada, 2012, 25 mins Trevor Anderson’s family memoir-cum-musical documentary tells the tale, in song and dance(!), of Anderson’s mysterious Great Uncle Jimmy—an Alberta farm boy turned Broadway dancer who met and befriended Judy Garland while in rehab. –DW
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THURSDAY MAY 10 7:00 PM VT The Tightrope of Life Violette Daneau, Canada, 2010, 92 mins The greatest mystery of them all is the subject of Violette Daneau’s discursive and deeply emotional film essay. Since she was a little girl, Violette has lived in fear of dying, but at age 59, she embarks upon a quest to uncover the root of this most primal terror. As she explores different rituals of death around the globe, from Switzerland to Spain, something extraordinary happens. Individual stories that range from the curious to the transcendent form a tapestry of human experience. Whether it is convicted prisoners learning to trust one person before they die, or nurses easing the passage of their patients, death is the one thing that we truly all share. As Violette learns to deal with her own fears, the final journey of life unfolds in all its mystery and beauty. –DW
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68 69 THURSDAY MAY 10 9:00 PM PC Six Million and One Commercial Drive is home to more single-location, owner-operated, David Fisher, Israel/Germany/Austria, 2011, 93 mins shops, restaurants and heritage commercial buildings than you’ll find anywhere else in the city. Great people-watching too! In Six Million and One, director David Fisher, along with his sister and thedrive.ca two brothers, rents a minivan to retrace their father Joseph Fisher’s experiences during WWII. As the Fishers kibitz and quarrel—David’s take younger brother Amnon jokes that, “They’re taking a family vacation the in concentration camps”—the harder truth of their quest comes slowly into view. In Austria, they tour suburbs that were built on the ruins of drive concentration camps. From the Gusen stone quarries to the vast 7.5 and scout -kilometre underground tunnel of Bergkristrall, where German aircrafts were surreptitiously assembled, the Fisher siblings follow in their locations! father’s footsteps, reading his meticulous diary entries. The past is an overwhelming emotional burden, yet through the journey, each sibling gains a measure of solace. As they try to make sense of their memories, their own experiences, relationships, and family bonds double back in a profound and emotional journey. –JM
THURSDAY MAY 10 9:15 PM VT Bright Leaves Curated by David Shields Ross McElwee, USA, 2003, 105 mins Ross McElwee’s reputation as one of the foremost American documentary filmmakers was built on films like Sherman’s March, Six O’Clock News, and, of course, the shimmering heat of the tobacco fields of North Carolina in Bright Leaves. McElwee’s autobiographical films helped to create a new type of documentary: discursive, personal, funny, all too human (in the best way possible). A wonderful companion piece to McElwee’s new film Photographic Memory (also screening at DOXA this year), this is classic documentary, as rich and satisfying as a good smoke. –DW To describe Ross McElwee’s documentary film Bright Leaves as a study of the tobacco industry in his native state of North Carolina would be a little like calling a Virginia Woolf novel a manual of etiquette. By the end of this reflective, wise, often hilarious movie, you feel as though he has slapped a huge chunk of raw, palpitating life onto the screen. –The New York Times
1660 East Broadway www.riotheatre.ca 604.878.3456 FRIDAY MAY 11 1:00 PM PC Stock Characters: The Cooking Show Elaine Carol, Canada, 2011, 52 mins In 2006, a diverse group of indigenous and immigrant youth came together to create a play based on a satire of the Japanese cult cooking show Iron Chef. Under the no-nonsense rule of director Elaine Carol, the actors learned to trust each other and trust themselves. As each cast member is forced to deal with their own volatile feelings, as well as the pressures of mounting a large and complex production, tempers flare. With everything from funding cuts to disappearing actors threatening the production, the fate of the play hangs in the balance. But as Karine, Dakota, Roberto, Michael, and Herb learn to cope without drugs and alcohol to mask their emotions, something remarkable happens. When 1391 Commercial Drive the curtain goes up at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and the Phone: 604-253-6442 troupe takes centre stage, will they bring down the house? –DW rated Y WORLD filmmaker MAKING www.peoplescoopbookstore.com for PREMIERE in person WAVES Youth
70 71 FRIDAY MAY 11 2:30 PM PC The Law in These Parts Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Occupied Palestine, 2011, 101 mins The legal system imposed by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza Strip is the subject of this remarkably revealing new film. As the lawyers, judges, and ex-military men find themselves on the receiving end of pointed The United Nations Association in Canada (Vancouver Branch) cross-examination from the filmmaker, the tragic disconnect between is proud to sponsor the screening of The Law in These Parts justice and what these men perpetrated becomes terribly apparent. –DW and congratulates the 2012 DOXA Documentary Film Festival Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s brilliant The Law in These Parts, which won the on this year’s exceptional program. Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, and Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s moving 5 Broken Cameras [also screening at DOXA], which won the Best Director Award in the same category, We believe in the power of film to tell important stories take different approaches to making an indisputable case against Israel about complex global issues. We hope that this film will in the endless conflict in the occupied territories. Both are necessary promote an open dialogue about human rights movies—the first appealing primarily to the head, the second to the heart. JUSTICE –Film Comment and the foundation of democracy around the world. FORUM
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FRIDAY MAY 11 5:00 PM PC Renaissance Man Evan Crowe, Kai Nagata and Candice Vallantin, Canada, 2012 In the world of 17th-century lute music, Matthew Wadsworth is a star. But few of his listeners would guess his other passion: jumping motorcycles. That’s because Matt is blind. From the Mojave Desert to Montreal to Manchester, this episodic documentary follows Matt and his motorcycle coach, Micky Dymond, as they train to set a world record. What drives them? How far will they push it? With the first two parts uploaded to YouTube as part of a distribution experiment, DOXA is proud to offer the world premiere of part three of Renaissance Man. Filmmakers Evan Crowe, Kai Nagata, and Candice Vallantin will present the work and offer up their own experiences of creating an international story, with no equipment, no distributor, and no money: a process a little akin to blind motorcycle jumping itself. –DW
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72 73 FRIDAY MAY 11 6:30 PM PC ¡Vivan las Antipodas! FRIDAY MAY 11 7:00 PM GR7 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet Victor Kossakovsky, Argentina/Germany/The Netherlands/Chile, 2011, 104 mins Jesse Vile, UK/USA, 2011, 90 mins A kaleidoscopic visual and aural feast, ¡Vivan las Antipodas! adventures to When Jason Becker was just 20 years old, he won the most coveted four of the earth’s antipodal pairs—locales situated at exact opposite ends guitar gig in the world with David Lee Roth and Van Halen. But just as of the globe—finding in their oppositeness, likeness and poetic symmetry. Jason seemed poised to assume the mantle of guitar god, taking his place Bustling Shanghai streets in China’s megacity are mesmerizingly braided alongside the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai, he was handed a with its quieter antipode, Entre Ríos, Argentina, where a scruffy, cowboy death sentence. Diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Jason was -hat wearing Abel and his brother tend to a lonely toll bridge. “How given three to five years to live. As the disease ravaged his body, leaving mysterious that there’s another world down there…” says Abel, in a his mind and his musical abilities intact, his father Gary Becker devised a moment of quiet reflection. From the Big Island, Hawaii, where much means of communication that allowed his son to compose music, make of the ground is a bubble of lava, to its opposite, Patagonia, Chile, where jokes, and share his joyful spirit and talent with the world. Jason went Rene Vargas herds sheep and lives with half a dozen jaunty cats, ¡Vivan on to fashion a life of music, love, family, friends, and legions of fans. las Antipodas! finds equal fascination with a place’s flora and fauna as with Director Jesse Vile’s extraordinary film more than does justice to Jason’s its people, unearthing grace in the wisdom that in the specific lies the story. This is one of those rare films that make one re-evaluate what is universal. It’s ultimately a feel-good, visually topsy-turvy delight. –JM possible in life. Jason Becker lives! –DW
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FRIDAY MAY 11 6:30 PM VT Just Beyond Hope FRIDAY MAY 11 8:00 PM VT Kinder Pia Massie, Canada, 2012, 73 mins Bettina Büttner, Germany, 2011, 65 mins Pia Massie’s remarkable documentary essay brings home the immediacy In Bettina Büttner’s exquisitely lucid documentary Kinder (Kids), of life in the Japanese internment camps set up by the Canadian and childhood dysfunction, loneliness, and pent-up emotion run wild at an American governments during WWII. The quotidian details of everyday all-boys group home in southern Germany. The children interned here existence recounted in letters and postcards reveal the raw wound of include ten-year-olds Marvin and Tommy. Marvin, fiddling with a mini this experience. Social worker Margaret Sage’s descriptions of Tashme, plastic Lego sword, explains matter-of-factly to the camera, “This is a an internment camp located just outside of the town of Hope, provide knife. You use it to cut stomachs open.” Dennis, who is even younger, is another perspective. Dorothea Lange’s remarkable photos of Japanese- seen in a hysteric fit, mimicking some pornographic scene. Boys will be Americans being interned, only recently released by the US government, boys, but innocence is disproportionately spare here. Choosing not to offer a startling glimpse across the border. The fragmented, shifting form dwell on the harsh specifics, Büttner reveals the disconcerting manner of lived experience and real history is given cinematic language in Massie’s in which traumatic episodes can manifest themselves in the mundane—a elegiac and emotional film. Many of the people who lived in the camps game of Lego, Hide and Seek, or Truth or Dare. Filmed in lapidary black- are now in their 80s, and their stories are a legacy of cultural and family and-white, Büttner’s fascinating film sheds light on childhood from the history that is carefully captured and preserved in this beautiful film. –DW boys’ characteristically disadvantaged perspective—one not yet fully WORLD filmmaker MAKING PREMIERE in person WAVES cognizant—leaving much ethically to ponder over. –JM
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74 75 Official Safety Partner of DOXA Documentary Film Festival FRIDAY MAY 11 9:00 PM PC Abendland Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2011, 88 mins What do a massive rave, a huge bank of surveillance monitors, video porn, and a mental health hotline all have in common? Shot during the dark night when humans used to sleep, Abendland is a panoramic social document that shows just how much our lives have been altered by “progress.” Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter films in wide, long shots, revealing the patterns that contemporary life has laid out for us. He takes us from hospitals to parties to border zones, rendering industrial Europe as a realm of organized conformity. His distant, surface-oriented focus reveals a large-scale psychology of alienation and repetition—an epidemic of diminished individuality. This is a profoundly beautiful and Convenient. disturbing documentary, one teeming with anonymous humanity, almost ViEw EmployEEs musical in its depiction of the ant-like movements that make up so much Accurate. View employee progress and marks. of our daily lives. Welcome to the machine. –MA View and update employee consulate and Fast. information. CULTURAL Partner Print employee certificates and Effective. transcripts.
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Program Book_OSP_DOXA.indd 1 12-03-09 1:20 PM More Great Festivals FRIDAY MAY 11 9:15 PM VT Amnesty International Film Festival 5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, The Netherlands, 2011, 90 mins Various dates and locations across Canada www.amnestyfilmfest.ca An anti-war documentary and poetic allegory in one, 5 Broken Cameras These annual film nights and festivals feature documentaries that tell places family struggle at its heart, infusing a human dimension into the important and compelling stories about the violation of human rights ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict with surprising non-judgment. In the around the world and the brave individuals who struggle to build respect for human rights, often at gravel personal risk. modest Palestinian village of Bil’n (located just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank), the olive trees on which the village’s livelihood relies are being uprooted to make way for nearby Jewish settlements and an Israeli- CoDev’s World Community Film Festival imposed separation wall. Farmworker Emad picks up his video camera February 2013 • Langara College, Vancouver and begins documenting the weekly protests against the settlement. As www.codev.org/filmfest the violence escalates from tear gas to live ammunition, each of Emad’s CoDevelopment Canada is pleased to present the 11th annual World Community Film Festival featuring social justice and environmental subsequent cameras are damaged or destroyed. 5 Broken Cameras takes documentaries set around the globe. The festival brings together a dismal political reality and carves out a thoughtful portrait of optimism Vancouver’s diverse social justice community to a festival that and resilience, and a plea for greater human understanding. –JM allows for reflection, provides a forum for discussion and prompts participants to action. Winner of The World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth April 12 - 19th, 2013 • Vancouver www.r2rfestival.org Educational and entertaining, Reel 2 Real offers children and youth the opportunity to learn about film and cultures from around the world. Activities include internationally acclaimed films and workshops on animation, sound design, digital filmmaking, and much more. This exciting program is sure to delight, move and amaze audiences of all ages!
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival November 2012 • Vancouver www.vjff.org SATURDAY MAY 12 12:00 PM PC The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival is held every November with Beer is Cheaper than Therapy films from around the globe. We showcase the diversity of Jewish Simone de Vries, The Netherlands, 2011, 78 mins culture, heritage and identity. We foster multiculturalism, community consultation and inclusiveness by providing entertaining and What happens when 40,000 soldiers return from war? The residents educational stories through the unique medium of film, presented in of the army town of Killeen, Texas, know all too well; the figures for a secular environment. depression, alcoholism and suicide skyrocket. “I’m 22 years old and I must have killed 30 people. The same thing that you were given badges Vancouver Latin American Film Festival for, over in Iraq, you would be considered a serial killer over here,” August 31 - September 9, 2012 says one soldier. Thoughts like these keep soldiers awake at night and www.vlaff.org when confusion, paranoia, and anger pool together, acts of extreme The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival celebrates it’s 10th violence take place. Yet there is no room for doubt, sadness, or fear Anniversary in 2012! VLAFF is a non-profit cultural promoter that in the American Army. Beer is Cheaper than Therapy breaks down the showcases perspectives of Latin American cultures through new full-length feature films, documentaries and short films. This annual “John Wayne mentality” and portrays what goes on behind the facade festival promotes dialogue between cultures and explores historical of heroism. –TW and social issues through the eyes of filmmakers.
CANADIAN JUSTICE Preceded by Prayers for Peace Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois PREMIERE FORUM Dustin Grella, USA, 2009, 7 mins et francophone A filmmaker remembers his younger brother in a beautifully visceral February 14-24, 2013 • Vancouver www.rendez-vousvancouver.com animation. -TW The 19th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone recognizes the success of Canadian cinema, celebrating the diversity and talent of our artists. The Beaux Jeudis Serie (November - March) and the School Matinée screenings provide ideal opportunities to foster the link with the francophone community via the presentation of top quality films. Visions Ouest Productions presents a Summer Rendez-vous: L’ÉTHÉATRE, July 1st-August 15th. 78 79 SATURDAY MAY 12 12:00 PM VT The Light Bulb Conspiracy Cosima Dannoritzer, Spain, 2010, 75 mins By now we barely even question it: consumer products don’t last. But, as this doc helpfully shows us, there was a time when the goods we spent our hard-earned money on could be counted on to keep working for years and years. What happened? Collusion of big business and the short-sighted desire for more manufacturing and sales created what is called “planned obsolescence.” Director Cosima Dannoritzer explores this phenomenon, centring on the seminal plan among light bulb manufacturers to create short-lasting products in order to increase their profits. And there’s much more: the film takes on the particulars of contemporary consumerism, the remarkable story of an American fire station with an old-fashioned light bulb that’s been working for decades, and the determined quest of one man to fix a printer that everyone he talks to tells him to throw out. Brisk and fact-filled, this is a disturbing but hopeful eye-opener. –MA
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SATURDAY MAY 12 2:00 PM PC Slice of Life: Shorts Program Food and culture are so inextricably intertwined that in separating the two, something precious is lost. Far better to celebrate the unifying force of the feast! Yuban (Live Earth) Yaasib Alvaro Vásquez Colmenares, Mexico, 2011, 29 mins The earth (or “Yuban”) for a Zapotecan community in Southern Mexico is meant to be tread upon lightly, for it is alive! “Yelembam is to say everything about the world and the cosmos is life,” explains one villager. Preparing for their annual carnival celebration—a dreamy blend of music, food, dance, and fireworks—the village collectively takes the time to express gratitude not for what they can take from the earth, but for everything it generously offers in return. –JM
Mistura: The Power of Food Patricia Perez, Peru, 2011, 38 mins As the old adage goes: “You are what you eat.” But when it comes to the wildly inventive cuisine of Peru, this chestnut takes on vivid new flavour. Patricia Perez’s joyful celebration of Peruvian food and culture, embodied in the Mistura Festival, held each September in Lima, is a brilliant kaleidoscope of colour, flavour, and national pride. –DW
80 81 SATURDAY MAY 12 2:00 PM VT The Lifeguard Maite Alberdi, Chile, 2011, 64 mins Vancouver's leading arts source. “That’s the lifeguard? With that hair?!” It’s a mean remark—one of many— intended teasingly for 25-year-old lifeguard Mauricio, our sympathetic hero in Maite Alberdi’s dark, humoured dissection of a Chilean beach. From his beach tower, Mauricio keeps a vigilant eye on the action, jotting down details of the weather and ocean current and shrilling his whistle at “no-swimming” disobeyers. Eager to a fault, Mauricio’s passion for beach safety marks him as an easy punching bag for sassy sunbathers and belligerent beachgoers. Everything from his dreadlocks, to his attention to the rules of beach etiquette invites acidic commentary. Despite this, Mauricio, with the aid and support of an adorable seven-year-old named Lucas, takes on the Herculean task of disciplining a sea of carefree vacationers. Illegal barbeques sizzle, pubescent boys ogle bathing beauties, and women commiserate about their drunk, jealous husbands. Brimming with warm humour, Alberdi’s film beautifully captures Chile’s sumptuous summer glow. –JM
SATURDAY MAY 12 4:00 PM PC Girl Model David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, USA, 2011, 78 mins Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving modelling industry connects the distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists: Ashley, a talent scout who scours Russia for fresh faces to send to Japan, and her latest discovery, Nadya, a 13-year-old who dreams about a better life for her parents. As a former model herself, Ashley is becoming increasingly jaded and frustrated by the industry’s fixation on youth. Sweet little Nadya must sink or swim when she’s plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the chaos of Tokyo. Girl Model explores a world of polished surfaces and camera lenses that resemble a house of mirrors. Young Nadya steps into the maze and discovers that appearances can’t be trusted and perceptions are easily distorted. The savvier Ashley may have learned the tricks of the labyrinth, but seems unable to escape its lure. When the glass finally shatters, will either of them make their way out? –TW
SATURDAY MAY 12 4:00 PM VT The Tiniest Place Tatiana Huezo Sánchez, Mexico, 2011, 108 mins In a remote village in the mountains of El Salvador, an unspeakable atrocity was perpetrated. During the country’s bloody civil war, villagers fled their homes, but when they returned to rebuild, reminders of the struggle remained. Even as the fecundity of the jungle covered the bodies of combatants in equal measure—mushrooms sprouting from the trousers Premiere Media Partner of fallen soldiers, guns rusting into immobility—memory endured. But instead of burying the agony of the past, the villagers enshrined it in the centre of town. “A people with memory is more difficult to oppress,” says one resident. In light of the horror and pain of the past, the re- emergence of life is transcendently beautiful. –DW Just as the residents of this town honor the most difficult moments of their DOXA 2012 lives, Tatiana Huezo Sánchez and her astute film honor their will to live, and the way unquenchable grief informs their joy. –The Hollywood Reporter StAy cOnnecteD At Straight.com 82 83 Three different types of financing. Three different funds. All from one source.
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The Rogers group of funds offers support to Canadian independent producers with three different types of funding: Rogers Telefund offers loans to Canadian independent producers; Rogers Documentary Fund, Canada’s premier source of funding for documentary films and Rogers Cable Network Fund, an equity investor in Canadian programs with a first play on a Canadian cable channel. Three different types of financing. Three different funds. All from one source – Rogers. For more information contact Robin Mirsky, Executive Director, at (416) 935-2526.
Application deadline for the Rogers Documentary Fund is Wednesday, August 8, 2012. Application deadlines for the Rogers Cable Network Fund are Friday, June 15 and Wednesday, October 17, 2012.
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